. . . "Every personal story was always in a way a story about ???us???, the Zionist ???dream???, or the Zionist nightmare.The Same Sea deals with ethnicity, a fact which doesn???t really come across in the translation, except in terms of the biographical details of the protagonists, and of the ???traditional pre-modern??? background of Nadia, the beautiful dead woman: ???At sixteen and a half, in a count" .