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Host Marcela Sulak reads an excerpt from Sarit Yishai-Levi\'s best-selling novel The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem, recently published\\xa0in Anthony Berris\\u2019s English translation. The novel\\xa0spans four generations of Sefardic women whose family traces its history in Israel to the Spanish expulsion, and the story centers around the family\\u2019s stall in the Mahane Yehuda market\\xa0in Jerusalem.

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"Gabriel returned to the shop. He despised the British more every day. He\\xa0couldn\\u2019t stand their haughty presence as they walked through the market in\\xa0groups in their pressed uniforms, as if they were the lords of the land. Some\\xa0had come to Palestine from remote villages, simple country boys who\\u2019d shoveled\\xa0cow shit in their English villages, and here in Palestine they behaved as if\\xa0each of them was the son of the King of England."

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Sarit Yishai-Levi, a journalist and author, was born in Jerusalem in 1947 to a Sephardic family that has lived in the city for seven generations.\\xa0She\\xa0has published four non-fiction books, the first of which is The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem, which\\xa0received the Publishers Association\'s Gold and Platinum Prizes (2014) and the Steimatzky Prize for best-selling book of the year (2014). It is now being made into a feature film.

Text:
The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem\\xa0by Sarit Yishai-Levi. Translated by Anthony Berris. St. Martin\\u2019s Press, 2016.

Music (all mentioned in the novel)