On the plus side, however, she has a financial advantage in the form of Abuloff, a dubious dealer in antiquities whose entire collection was recently donated to the university (and with it, the aforementioned tablet). To her horror, her brother Broshi is working for Rafi, now in possession of a tablet whose inscription possibly describes the Ark’s hiding place in an Arab village called Al-Karim, once the site of a Judean settlement. Naturally, she isn’t the only one chasing this chimera. Though only an amateur digger herself, she will attempt to find the long lost Ark of the Covenant, an object in whose existence her father has always believed, and whose location he once thought he knew. Her mission now is to protect her father’s legacy from Rafi, his rivalrous colleague at the Hebrew University. But Nili, abrasive and determined, is no nurse. I n Tunnels, Rutu Modan’s long-awaited new graphic novel, a fiery single mother called Nili returns from the US to Jerusalem, where her father, Israel, once a distinguished archaeologist, languishes at home, his life stolen by dementia.
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