Between life and death / Yoram Kaniuk ; translated from the Hebrew by Barbara Harshav.

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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 a...

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Uniform Title:ʻAl ha-ḥayim ṿe-ʻal ha-maṿet. English
Main Author: Kaniuk, Yoram (Author)
Other Authors: Harshav, Barbara, 1940- (Translator)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
Hebrew
Language and/or Writing System:
In English, translated from the Hebrew.
Published: Brooklyn, New York : Restless Books, 2016.
Edition:First Restless Books hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Kaniuk, Yoram.
Authors, Israeli > Biography.
Authors, Israeli.
Fictional autobiographies.
Autobiographical fiction.
Genre:
Biography.
Fictional autobiographies.
Autobiographical fiction.
Physical Description:222 pages ; 20 cm
Format: Book
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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.
Note:"First published as Al Ha-Cheam Ve-Al Ha-Mavet by Yedioth Ahronoth Books and Chemed Books, Tel Aviv, 2007."
Call Number:PJ5054.K326 B4813 2016
ISBN:1632060922
9781632060921