The Man Who Fell into a Puddle: Israeli Lives - Couverture rigide

Sarna, Igal; Watzman, Haim

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0375420622 ISBN 13 : 9780375420627

Editeur : Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2002

Synopsis

A leading Israeli investigative journalist shares a series of candid, intimate portraits of men and women who, trapped in the middle of harrowing events, brutal conditions, violence, and terror, struggle--often unsuccessfully--to preserve their past, their identity, their sanity, and their hope. 20,000 first printing.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"Clever, mischievous and humane, this is literary journalism in the proud tradition of Ryszard Kapuscinski and Joseph Roth."--Amos Elon

“Sarna has elevated the human-interest story to an art form. His book sheds light on human suffering in general, and the Israeli experience in particular. These fascinating accounts reveal a truth that is stranger than fiction, and a good deal stronger as well.”--The Dallas Morning News

“Incantory. . . .Sarna writes searingly of the Jewish experience. . . . He understands that horror often hides in the small details, the seemingly trivial. His story "Whoever Knew Shut Up or Died," in simply tracing the fate of an Israeli family trying to track down a baby lost in Poland during the horror, may be as unforgettable an expression of the numbing legacy of the Nazi murder of Jews as anything out there.”—The San Francisco Chronicle

“Short, haunting and delicately drawn portraits, of settlers, soldiers, artists, [and] war heroes. [Sarna] touches on all the themes of Israel’s modern tragedy. Thoughtful and humane. . .A marvellous book”—The Times Literary Supplement

Biographie de l'auteur

Igal Sarna was born in 1952 and served as a tank commander in the Yom Kippur War in 1973. He writes for the daily newspaper Yediot Aharonot and was one of the founders of the Peace Now movement. He received the IBM Tolerance Prize for a series of cover stories on Iranian political prisoners in Israel, and in 1998 he was awarded a Fulbright grant and spent a semester at the University of Iowa International Writing Program. He has published, in Hebrew, a biography of the poet Yona Wallach, a novel, Tzayad Ha-Zikaron (Hunter of Memory) and most recently, Muzungu: The Story of the Airplane that Crashed on the Moon-Mountains. He lives in Tel Aviv with his wife and two children.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0375420622
• ISBN 13: 9780375420627
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible