Talking To The Enemy: Stories
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Publishing Details
Talking To The Enemy: Stories
By (Author) Avner Mandelman
Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Seven Stories Press,U.S.
1st August 2011
United States
Classifications
General
Fiction
Short stories
813.54
Winner of Sophie Brody Award 2006
Physical Properties
Hardback
144
Width 127mm, Height 203mm
316g
Description
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has shaped the consciousness of a generation, but never before has it been brought to life in such vivid and telling prose. Part Tim O'Brien and part Bernard Malamud, Mandelman's Talking to the Enemy ranges from boisterously entertaining tales of domestic squabbles to dark narratives from disillusioned soldiers. Awarded the Jewish Book Award when it was published in Canada and supplemented with recent stories, this volume is the powerful American debut of an international favourite.
Reviews
Mandelman cast[s] the often grim news from the Middle East in a newly revealing and humanizing light. Jim Bartley, Globe and Mail (Toronto)
With these agile, vernacular stories, Mandelman takes a clear-sighted yet empathetic view of a fraught nation. Publishers Weekly
Author Bio
Born in Israel in 1947, AVNER MANDELMAN served in the Israeli Air Force during the Six-Day War and has for four decades split his time between Paris, California, and Canada. Mandelmans stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories 1995, The Journey Prize Stories, and The 1996 Pushcart Prize XX.
