Words without Borders Best Books of 2013, Coffin Factory Best Books of 2013, and World Literature Today Best Books of 2013.

"Ardent, salty, whimsical, steamy, absurd . . . A wallop to the reader."--Ploughshares

"Beautiful ... reading the book feels like going back in time ."--Yael Stone, actor in Orange is the New Black

"Since I was little, I have thrilled at reading food-related passages in novels. But the food scenes in Some Day by Israeli novelist Shemi Zarhin are on another level. In one passage, Zarhin describes a dish so vividly I felt...