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

Sarna, Igal; Watzman, Haim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375420622 ISBN 13: 9780375420627

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2002

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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.

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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

Details zur Ausgabe

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