About the book: 2005 / Starting with the books "The Memory of Abraham" (1983, Livre Inter Prize) and "The Khazar Wind" (2001), Marek Alter continues his work as a conductor of memory. With his trilogy “Biblical Heroines”, the second volume of which - after the book about Sarah - is Zipporah, he rethinks biblical events, giving women their deserved place in them. Three thousand years ago, a black girl was sheltered on the shores of the Red Sea. She was named Zipporah, "the Bird." The color of her skin decided her future: no one would want to marry her. But one day, at Irmna’s well, a man looked at her as no one had ever looked at her before. His name was Moses, he fled from Egypt. The ardent beloved, the generous wife, the black Zipporah, a foreigner, not a Jew, bore in her arms the burden of Moses' fate. Forgetting his fears and doubts, thanks to her he heard the message of God and gave humanity laws that even today protect the weak from the strong. But the love of Moses condemned Zipporah, and in the cohort of the Exodus of the Jews from Egypt, the fate of the black woman overtook her... The forgotten heroine of the Bible, the black Zipporah of Kush, the wife of Moses, seems to be the embodiment of intelligence and love. Weak among the weak, she was the first to understand the calling of Moses, and this insight makes her, along with Sarah, a heroine strikingly close to us.