Dorit Rabinyan was born in Kefar-Saba, Israel, to Persian parents and wrote her first novel, Persian Brides, at twenty-one. An award-winning international bestseller translated into ten languages ...

The book in question is "Borderlife" by Dorit Rabinyan, and is is about a Jewish woman and an Arab man who meet and fall in love while spending the winter in New York. A ministry official said the ...