{"product_id":"between-life-and-death-hardcover","title":"Between Life and Death - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYoram Kaniuk\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBarbara Harshav\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe final literary testament of \"one of the most innovative, brilliant novelists in the Western World\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eBetween Life and Death\u003c\/i\u003e is a startlingly brave, funny, poetic, and moving autobiographical novel about the four months Yoram Kaniuk spent in a coma near the end of his life. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBetween Life and Death\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShifting between memory and illusion, imagination and testimony, Kaniuk inquires into the place of death in society, the lust for life, and the force of human relationships. He also writes movingly about the Holocaust survivors of his childhood neighborhood, and the battles of the 1948 War of Independence, in which he fought. Full of renewed vitality at the age of seventy-four, Kaniuk announced his rebirth in \u003ci\u003eBetween Life and Death\u003c\/i\u003e, and left us a treasure of world literature that is sure to become a classic. \u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYoram Kaniuk \u003c\/b\u003e(1930-2013) was born in Tel Aviv and took part in Israel's War of Independence in 1948. A painter, journalist, and theater critic, he was best known as a novelist. His 29 books include \u003ci\u003eThe Acrophile \u003c\/i\u003e(1960), \u003ci\u003eHimmo, King of Jerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e (1968), \u003ci\u003eAdam Resurrected\u003c\/i\u003e (1971), \u003ci\u003eRockinghorse\u003c\/i\u003e (1977), \u003ci\u003eConfessions of a Good Arab\u003c\/i\u003e (1984), \u003ci\u003eHis Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e (1987), \u003ci\u003eCommander of the Exodus\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), \u003ci\u003eThe Last Jew\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), \u003ci\u003e1948 \u003c\/i\u003e(2010) and \u003ci\u003eBetween Life and Death\u003c\/i\u003e, and have been translated into twenty languages. He won the Bialik Prize, the French Prix de Droits de l'Homme, the Israeli President's Prize, the Newman Prize and the Sapir Prize for Literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarbara Harshav\u003c\/b\u003e has been translating works from French, German, Hebrew and Yiddish for over twenty years and has currently published over forty books of translation including works of poetry, drama, fiction, philosophy, economics, sociology, and history. \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 222\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.4 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 13, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770464076064,"sku":"9781632060921","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a274f7074382c7196bdf18ef6ae39aec.webp?v=1780372221","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/between-life-and-death-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}