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Between life and death / Yoram Kaniuk ; translated from the Hebrew by Barbara Harshav.
LIBRA PJ5054.K326 B48 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kaniuk, Yoram, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Al Ha-Cheam Ve-al Ha-Mavet. English
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Kaniuk, Yoram--Fiction.
- Kaniuk, Yoram.
- Life--Fiction.
- Life.
- Coma--Fiction.
- Coma.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 222 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, New York : Restless Books, 2016.
- Language Note:
- In English, translated from Hebrew.
- Summary:
- In Between Life and Death , famed Israeli writer Yoram Kaniuk describes the four months during which he lay unconscious in a Tel Aviv hospital, hovering between the world of the living and that of the dead. Told in an arresting, dreamlike style that blends playfulness with fearless honesty, Kaniuk attempts to penetrate his own lost consciousness and understand what led him to fight for his life with such tenacity.
- Notes:
- "First published as Al Ha-Cheam Ve-Al Ha-Mavet by Yedioth Ahronoth Books and Chemed Books, Tel Aviv, 2007."
- ISBN:
- 1632060922
- 9781632060921
- OCLC:
- 930828648
- Publisher Number:
- 99969455285
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