{"product_id":"six-israeli-novellas-9781567921991","title":"Six Israeli Novellas","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the most representative anthology yet published of modern Hebrew novellas  a book that will provide any reader with a fine overview of the best fiction that small but vibrant country has to offer. Included here are novellas by six of Israels most important and honored contemporary writers. Aharon Appelfelds In the Isles of St. George tells of a fugitive black marketeer hiding on a desolate Italian island  who finds his past  his Jewishness  and his very sense of identity resolved. In Yani on the Mountain  David Grossman explores the psychological impact of the 1973 Yom Kippur War on a young generation of Israelis living in a Mount Sinai army base in its final days before demolition. Ruth Almogs Shrinking lyrically portrays the loneliness and frustrations of a middle-aged heroine whose longing for human contact is thwarted by her stifling bond to her father. Also included are Yaakov Shabtais Uncle Peretz Takes Flight  a grotesque portrait of one mans cowardice  in the vein of Shalom Aleichem; Yehudit Hendels Small Change  about the interaction between the paranoid experience of an Israeli woman abroad and a complex father-daughter relationship; and Benjamin Tammuzs My Brother  in which one brothers selfish conquests are contrasted to the others passive  but ultimately more sinister  altruism. In the words of editor Gershon Shaked  these novellas \"show modern Israeli fiction at its richest and most diversified  with a character all its own.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67909441093685,"sku":"ByrdShop_156792199X","price":66.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781567921991.jpg?v=1793908098","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/six-israeli-novellas-9781567921991","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}