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Synopsis
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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About the Authors
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
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Hardback. Condition: Good. Throughout my life as a journalist, writes Igal Sarna in his preface, I have written about Israeli traumas and have seen how new lives are built on the ruins. How a new land sprouts out from a charred ground zero. In this striking collection of essays, Sarna taps his powers as an acclaimed investigative journalist to uncover the fascinating, wrenching experiences of Israeli men and women clinging to their stories, their history, their hope. Meditations on memory and personal mythology, these superb essays startle as they move, all the while offering a unique perspective on contemporary Israel. Seller Inventory # 00104682527
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