Sabato's first book,
Emet Mi Eretz Titzmach, (published in English as
Aleppo Tales), is a collection of short stories relating to his family's ancestral home and community of Aleppo, northern Syria.
Sabato was awarded the prestigious Sapir Prize for Literature, as well as the Yitzhak Sadeh Prize, for his second work,
Tiyum Kavanot (titled
Adjusting Sights in the English translation), a moving account of the experiences of a soldier in the Yom Kippur War. The book has also been made into a film.
His third publication,
KeAfapey Shachar (published in English as
Dawning of the Day: A Jerusalem Tale), a bestseller, tells the story of Ezra Siman Tov, and humble and religious Jerusalemite, coming to terms with a changing world.
Sabato's latest work,
Bo'ee HaRuach (to be published in English as
From the Four Winds in Spring 2010), was published in 2008, and describes his experiences as an a "oleh chadash", and new immigrant, in the Israeli "ma'abarot" - transit camps - of the 1950s.
Works translated into English
- Adjusting Sights
- Aleppo Tales
- The Dawning of the Day: A Jerusalem Tale
- From the Four Winds