The Man Who Fell into a Puddle: Israeli Lives - Hardcover

Sarna, Igal; Watzman, Haim

 
9780375420627: The Man Who Fell into a Puddle: Israeli Lives
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0375420622 ISBN 13: 9780375420627
Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Igal Sarna writes for the newspaper daily Yediot Aharonot. After serving as a tank commander in the Yom Kippur War in 1973, he helped found the Peace Now movement. He received the IBM Tolerance Prize for a series of cover stories he wrote on Iranian political prisoners in Israel, and in 1998 he spent a semester as a Fulbright fellow at the University of Iowa's International Writing Program. Sarna has published, in Hebrew, a biography of the poet Yona Wallach and a novel, <b>Hunter <br>of Memory</b>. He lives in Tel Aviv with his wife and two children.

Igal Sarna writes for the newspaper daily Yediot Aharonot.

Aus dem Klappentext

Israel's leading investigative journalists, piercingly honest portraits of Israeli men and women who, in the face of brutal and desperate forces, try-often without success-to hold onto their past, their identity, their sanity, and their hope.<br><br>The son of a Holocaust survivor descends into paranoia, "swept away like a demon-ravaged refugee ship"; a Bedouin boy kills his father with a stone; a Russian immigrant crashes his car-his sole, proud possession-and vanishes into the desert; a veteran is left with agonizing memories of his fallen comrades in the Yom Kippur War; a senior army officer who grew up believing himself to be an orphan discovers his mother living among Arabs in Jordan.<br><br>These are just a few of the people whose stories make up this stunning book. Brilliantly, Igal Sarna lets their unexpected and harrowing tales speak for themselves, carefully weaving individual voices into a narrative of shattering power. Like no other book before it, <b>The Man Who F

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Verlag
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0375420622
ISBN 13 
9780375420627
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
192
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