Time to Speak

Keren Klimovskyi (born 1985) is a prose writer, playwright, screenwriter, and co-founder of Theatre KEF in Malmö (Sweden). She has been published for fifteen years in Russian, American, and Israeli magazines. A winner of the “Debut” award, laureate of contests such as “Culmination,” “Remark,” and others. Performances based on Klimovskyi’s plays are staged in many Russian and foreign theaters. Israel, late 1990s—early 2000s. Twelve-year-old Mишка grows up in a prosperous family with a storybook-loving mother and a professor father. Her entire life will change dramatically when she learns about her parents’ divorce. Over four years, Mishka will have to grow up abruptly and survive too many dramatic events to find her voice and understand that it’s her “time to speak.” In the audiobook “Time to Speak,” which the author calls “symphonies of growing up,” a travel romance, a detective story, and a family drama come together. Just as colorful and diverse is the world of Israel itself—impossibly paradoxical, full of contradictions, and surprisingly fascinating.