Orly Castel-Bloom is a leading voice in Hebrew literature today. Her postmodern classic Dolly City has been included in UNESCO's Collection of Representative Works, and was nominated in 2007 as one of the ten most important books since the creation of the state of Israel. An Egyptian Novel won the Sapir Prize in 2015. Castel-Bloom's books have been published in 14 languages.
"""From the first pages, Dolly City asserts itself as an important text . . . Kafka has finally arrived in Tel Aviv."" — Le Monde"