Apples from the Desert: Selected Stories (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series)Savyon Liebrecht's intense, lyrical, and emotionally complex stories have made her a best selling writer in her native Israel. Her short fiction explores the everyday tragedies that emanate from strained relationships between Arabs and Jews, women and men, older and younger generations in present day Israel. According to the Washington Post Book World, her "engrossing and skillful tales take you through the lives of real people, to the heart of their