Evan Fallenberg
1) Light fell
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A Winner of the Barbara Gittings Literature Award and the Edmund White Award Twenty years have passed since Joseph left behind his entire life-his wife Rebecca, his five sons, his father, and the religious Israeli farming community where he grew up-when he fell in love with a man, the genius rabbi Yoel Rosenzweig. Their affair is long over, but its echoes continue to reverberate through the lives of Joseph, Rebecca, and their sons in ways that none...
Author
Language
English
Description
During the 1948 War of Independence--a time when pigeons are still used to deliver battlefield messages--a gifted young pigeon handler is mortally wounded. In the moments before his death, he dispatches one last pigeon, carrying his extraordinary gift to the girl he has loved since adolescence. Intertwined with this story is the contemporary tale of Yair Mendelsohn, who has his own legacy from the 1948 war. Yair is a tour guide specializing in bird-watching...
Author
Series
Michael Ohayon mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The sixth and final novel from beloved and critically-acclaimed Israeli crime novelist Batya Gur-a stunning tale of a beautiful and secretive woman's murder, set against the politically charged backdrop of the Israeli media
Acclaimed Israeli director Benny Meyuhas' film production of the heartbreaking work "Iddo and Eynam" promises to be a landmark of Israeli film-until his wife and the films' set designer Tirzah Rubin is crushed under a set piece,...
6) Beaufort
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
By turns subversive and darkly comic, brutal and tender, Ron Leshem's debut novel is an international literary sensation, winner of Israel's top award for literature, and the basis for a prizewinning film.Beaufort. To the handful of Israeli soldiers occupying the ancient crusader fortress, it is a little slice of hell-a forbidding, fear-soaked enclave perched atop two acres of land in southern Lebanon, surrounded by an enemy they cannot see. And to...
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