“He reaches out to me, we approach the crane together, and he helps me climb. ‘Only look up, where we need to go, and not down, not where we’re getting away from.’ The way he speaks is a bit funny, even strange. But maybe crane operators have their own language. After all, they spend their entire lives going up and down, lowering cargo and lifting it up. There’s almost nothing in their world that stays at the same height.”
Dudi is an innocent, vulnerable teenage boy, with surprising reservoirs of strength and a burning love for cranes. A chance encounter with Eitan, an eccentric and visionary crane operator, entangles him in a mysterious master plan to change the face of his city and society as a whole. Dudi, his parents and his sister find themselves swept into an adventure which goes beyond the boundaries of realism and into the fantastical realms of imagination, one that will make the readers’ hearts soar to new heights. Furthermore is an enigmatic novel overflowing with beauty, which examines the limits of sanity, family and loyalty, and is always treading a tightrope between and healing and destruction.