Yochi Brandes, is an Israeli author who grew up in an orthodox Jewish family in Jerusalem.

She usually writes with a profound mastery of the Bible and of Jewish tradition.

Her recent books have dealt with Biblical stories, which she had woven, with a masterful hand into stories of what and how it happened, back then in the Biblical times.

“Hagar” is a Unique, intriguing, and exciting love and life story. Hagar, a young Jerusalem woman growing up in an orthodox family in today Jerusalem, is battling a life- battle against her Grandmother’s insistence that her biblical name is a curse; and that young Hagar’s life is a loss…. because the bible rejected ancient Hagar.

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http://www.amazon.com/Hagar-Yochi-Brandes/dp/9654486423/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top