The man who sold air in the holy land : stories / Omer Friedlander.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Friedlander, Omer, 1994- author.

Contributor:

• Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• short stories.
• Israel--Fiction.
• West Bank--Fiction.
• Lebanon--Fiction.
• Israel.
• West Bank.
• Lebanon.

Genre:

• Short stories.
• short stories.
• Fiction
• Short stories

Physical Description:

241 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, [2022]

Summary:

"The poignant, whimsically imaginative stories in Omer Friedlander's debut transport readers to the narrow limestone alleyways of Jerusalem, the desolate beauty of the Negev Desert, and the sprawling orange groves of Jaffa. Across the sharply drawn borders that divide them, Friedlander's characters, often outsiders or even outcasts, are haunted by the past, or by the promise of a future that they can see but often cannot reach. A divorced con artist and his young daughter sell empty bottles of "holy" air to credulous tourists; a Lebanese Scheherazade enchants with her nightly tales the three young soldiers occupying a radio station in Beirut; a lonely young boy, obsessed with the bravery of a Polish-Jewish ballerina during the Holocaust, daringly "rooftops" at night, climbing steel cranes in his scuffed sneakers; an Israeli volunteer at a West Bank checkpoint mourns the death of her son, a soldier killed in Gaza. In these stories, moments of fragile intimacy mix with comedy and notes of the absurd; these are fairy tales turned on their heads by the stakes of real life. These stories are the literary equivalent of Chagall's brushstrokes, offering enchantment as they take you somewhere far away yet achingly near, revealing the shared humanity that transcends physical, political, and religious boundaries, with a universal appeal to the heart"-- Provided by publisher.

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
• \t Walking Shiv'ah
• The Miniaturist.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Friedlander, Omer. Man who sold air in the holy land.

ISBN:

• 9780593242971
• 0593242971

OCLC:

1260689964

Publisher Number:

99991523455

Online:

The Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund Home Page