The man who sold air in the Holy land
Friedlander, Omer, 1994-2022
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A divorced con-artist and his young daughter sell empty bottles of 'holy' air to credulous tourists. In a bombed-out Beirut radio station, a Lebanese Scheherazade enchants three young soldiers with her nightly tales. Ahead of a school 'Show and Tell', two brothers kidnap a Shoah survivor from a supermarket to pose as their grandfather. An Israeli volunteer at a West Bank checkpoint mourns the death of her son, a soldier killed in Gaza. From the limestone alleyways of Jerusalem to the desolate Negev Desert and the sprawling orange groves of Jaffa, Omer Friedlander's stories are fairy tales turned on their head by the stakes of real life, where moments of fragile intimacy mix with comedy and notes of the absurd. Casting his eye, not on the region's conflicts, but on the hopes and failures of its people, The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land is at times darkly funny, at others quietly devastating.
Main title:
The man who sold air in the Holy land / Omer Friedlander.
Author:
Friedlander, Omer, 1994-, author
Imprint:
London : John Murray, 2022.©2022
Collation:
241 pages ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Jaffa oranges -- Alte Sachen -- The man who sold air in the holy land -- Checkpoint -- The Sephardi survivor -- The sand collector -- Scheherazade and radio station 97.2 FM -- High heels -- Jellyfish in Gaza -- Walking Shiv'ah -- The miniatuist.
ISBN:
97813998039469781399803946
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
512836
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - General | FRIE | Available |
| Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - General | FRIE | Available |