Israeli novelist Assaf Gavron discusses his book, "The Hilltop: A Novel," and explains why a secular Tel Avivian chose to set the plot in a remote Jewish outpost in the West Bank. More broadly, where do the personal and the political overlap, and what is the role of literature in articulating the two?

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