Orly Castel-Bloom How Can You Lose Your Cool, When the Kinneret is as Calm as a Pool
Judith Katzir Fellini’s Shoes
Etgar Keret The Sad Story of Ant Bear’s Family
Yossi Avni The Last Crusader
Mira Magen The Red Dress
Nava Semel A Lady from Fayyum
Alex Epstein The Short Legend About Bathsheba’s Mother
Gadi Taub Connection
Uri Tzaig Tel Aviv, Summer 1993
Yoav Katz Multisystem
Alona Kimchi Lunar Eclipse
ReviewS:
'This is a very accessible
way of telling the Holocaust story to today's teenagers. It focuses
on young people doing what they always do whatever the circumstance:
flirting, bending the rules, helping each other out, smuggling in
illicit objects (in this case a collection of puppets that they
can express their underlying anxieties with) though they are experiencing
one of the twentieth century's most inhumane events. The black and
white pencil drawings are beautifully done and very sensitive, yet
with a cool edge deriving from today's best comic book illustration,
and there are a number of touches of humour as well.' Amazon
review, 2010
'A range of previously hidden voices. An excellent and stimulating anthology.’ (JC)
SUMMARY:
A unique collection of eleven of the best, daring, young multicultural voices, writing in Hebrew today, these stories encapsulate the diverse mosaic of a society that is uncomfortable with itself, as it come to terms with violence and dislocation, with wry wit and hope that counters despair.
The collection includes an impressive range of subjects and styles from the dreamy magic realism of Fellini’s Shoes by Judith Katzir to the post modernism of Orly Castel-Bloom’s account of the effects of taking drugs; from the comic-strip humour of Etgar Keret’s evocation of anti-semitism, to the hard-nosed realism of Yoav Katz’s story of wife-beating; from Yossi Avni’s wry comedy of Tel Aviv’s gay scene (the writer’s family is Iranian- Afghani), to Uri Tsaig’s subtle rendering of the problem of the Palestinian ‘knowing’ the Israeli and vice-versa. The stories also include the voices of more established writers like David Grossman and Nava Semel, who examine the way the past interleaves with the present in their explosive society.
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Contents
Cherries in the Icebox by David Grossman How Can You Lose Your Cool, When the Kinneret is as Calm as a Pool by Orly Castel-Bloom Fellini’s Shoes by Judith Katzir The Sad Story of Ant Bear’s Family by Etgar Keret The Last Crusader by Yossi Avni The Red Dress by Mira Magen A Lady from Fayyum by Nava Semel The Short Legend About Bathsheba’s Mother by Alex Epstein Connection by Gadi Taub Tel Aviv, Summer 1993 by Uri Tzaig Multisystem by Yoav Katz Lunar Eclipse by Alona Kimchi
