The Parents of Lev Afor

Adi Kaplan and Shahar Carmel

2006

​The second installment of the renowned trilogy Lev Afor, mysteriously appearing before the first installment, though dates four years later, is an inflaming tale of parents and their daughter. The multilayered yet economical plot carries the reader through a winding journey of conflicting traditions and cultures, emotional territories of people cast into this frayed and tattered arena.
A bold literary and picturesque voyage attempts to navigate the vast landscape of our current time, as well as the intimate slice of life of the individuals inhabiting it.

  • Copies: 1000
  • Pages: 112
  • Type of binding: hardcover
  • Dimensions (cm): 15X21
  • Reproductions: Adi Kaplan & Shahar Carmel
  • Printing: A.R. Printing LTD
  • Binding: A.R. Printing LTD
  • Type of printing: Offset
  • Publication: Lev Afor
  • Place of publication: Israel

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.