This event will begin with a reception at 7:00pm, followed by a Reading, Talk, and Q&A at 7:30, and ending with dessert and an informal discussion at 8:00pm.

Assaf Gavron is an acclaimed Israeli writer of five novels (Ice, Moving, Almost Dead, Hydromania and The Hilltop); a collection of short stories (Sex in the Cemetery); and a non-fiction collection of Jerusalem falafel-joint reviews (Eating Standing Up). His fiction was translated into 11 languages, and has been adapted for the stage in Israel's national theatre. Mr. Gavron is the recipient of several awards including the Bernstein Prize for The Hilltop, the Israeli Prime Minister's Creative Award for Authors, the Buch Fur die Stadt in Germany and the Prix Courrier International in France. He currently teaches at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.