Unholy Land

This strange and convoluted novel might be the closest that you can get to understanding how expat Israelis feel about Israel – it forces you into a vantage point from which multiple points of view, truths and realities cohere.

As an immigrant myself, I really liked the idea of forgetting the details of previous your life once you've crossed the border between worlds, and comfortably making home in a different reality, complete with an alternative history and geopolitics.

I'm still not quite sure why the author made some of the decisions he made. While I get why each character's POV would be written in a different person, I struggle to see why the inspector character, the only one written in first person, would have access to other characters' feelings and perspective – it was a bit jarring and made the story that much harder to follow, and in the end wasn't explained (unless I missed something).