The Man Who Fell Into a Puddle: Israeli Lives
by Igal Sarna
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375420622
- ISBN 13
- 9780375420627
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Sarna is a journalist who commanded a tank in the Yom Kippur War in 1973. He is a founder of the Peace Now Movement. These are accounts of Israeli traumas, showing how lives continue to be built on ruins, "How a new land sprouts out from a charred ground zero." Inscribed by Sarna on the half-title page.
Synopsis
Igal Sarna was born in 1952 and served as a tank commander in the Yom Kippur War in 1973. He writes for the daily newspaper Yediot Aharonot and was one of the founders of the Peace Now movement. He received the IBM Tolerance Prize for a series of cover stories on Iranian political prisoners in Israel, and in 1998 he was awarded a Fulbright grant and spent a semester at the University of Iowa International Writing Program. He has published, in Hebrew, a biography of the poet Yona Wallach, a novel, Tzayad Ha-Zikaron (Hunter of Memory) and most recently, Muzungu: The Story of the Airplane that Crashed on the Moon-Mountains . He lives in Tel Aviv with his wife and two children.
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- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0008582
- Title
- The Man Who Fell Into a Puddle
- Author
- Igal Sarna
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 3
- Edition
- First American edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375420622
- ISBN 13
- 9780375420627
- Publisher
- Pantheon
- Place of Publication
- Westminister, Maryland, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- Israel, Israeli fiction, Yom Kippur War,
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