The Diary of Lev Afor (2014)
Adi Kaplan and Shahar Carmel
2014
The third installment of the renowned Hebrew trilogy Lev Afor, translated into English by Lori Solondz, and published by Swiss publisher Edition Patrick Frey, with texts by Elli Armon Azoulay and Yonatan Vinitsky.
At sixteen, Lev Afor dreams of love, like the rest of her peers, but dares to confront her milieu and visions in unacceptable ways. This coming-of-age chamber piece dances around passion and rejection that may lead up to a gruesome murderousness.
English translation of the book The Diary of Lev Afor (2013, Edition Lev Afor) published by Edition Patrick Frey (Switzerland).
- Design: Yochai Daviv Matos
- Editing: Andreas Koller
- Texts: Adi Kaplan & Shahar Carmel
- Translation: from Hebrew: Lori Solondz
- Copies: 800
- Pages: 200
- Type of binding: hardcover
- Dimensions (cm): 15.5X21.7
- Reproductions: Adi Kaplan & Shahar Carmel
- Printing: A.R. Printing LTD
- Binding: A.R. Printing LTD
- Type of printing: Offset
- Publication: Edition Patrick Frey
- Place of publication: Zurich, Switzerland
- ISBN: 9783905929614
Lev Afor—Adi Kaplan, born in Ein Hahoresh in 1967 and Shahar Carmel, born in Tel Aviv in 1958, are graduates of the Kalisher Academy of Painting. They have been living and working together in Tel Aviv since 1994. They are engaged in writing and painting, creating comic books and graphic novels, short films, sketches, pictorial and musical performances and shows that combine all of these. Over the last 14 years, they have focused on writing, drawing and publishing graphic novels under the name “Lev Afor” [lit. Gray Heart]. The books deal with their personal experiences and immediate environment, and aim to show a more general picture of life in Tel Aviv, Israel, today.
