About the book: 2019 / “The Egyptian Novel” is a semi-autobiographical saga about several generations of a family of repatriates from Egypt, whose ancestors lived there back in the time of Moses, but not followed him to the Promised Land. Reality and fiction, facts and family legends are woven by the author into a multi-colored tapestry of the history of an entire people. This is a small novel about a large family, like a spreading tree, each leaf on which is the fate of a person. For The Egyptian Novel, Castel-Blum received the Sapir Prize, Israel's main literary award..