En Max Gross‘ The Lost Shtetl, a town that history missed – spared by the Holocaust and the Cold War, untouched by electricity, the internet, and indoor plumbing – is abruptly pulled into the 21st century, with seriocomic results. Gross talks about his novel with Moriel Rothman-Zecher, author of the heartbreaking coming-of-age tale, La tristeza es un pájaro blanco, about a young man who prepares to serve in the Israeli army as he desperately tries to reconcile his love for two Palestinian siblings with his loyalties to family and country.
