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The Man Who Sold Air In The Holy Land

Omer Friedlander

Middle Eastern Fiction

Short Story Collection

Human Condition

Absurdist Comedy

Conflict Narratives

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Omer Friedlander Was Born In Jerusalem And Grew Up In Tel Aviv. He Earned A Ba In English Literature From The University Of Cambridge, And An Mfa From Boston University, Where He Was Supported By The Saul Bellow Fellowship. His Short Stories Have Won Numerous Awards, And Have Been Published In The United States, Canada, France, And Israel. A Starworks Fellow In Fiction At New York University, He Has Earned A Bread Loaf Work-Study Scholarship As Well As A Fellowship From The Vermont Studio Center. He Currently Lives In New York City.

'in These Wise, Capacious, Achingly Beautiful Stories, Omer Friedlander Maps The Hidden Geography Of The Human Heart Like A Young Chekhov' Anthony Marra

'a Beautiful Debut By A Deeply Humane Writer. Every Story Is A Vivid World Unto Itself, Intensely Felt, And Often Revelatory' Nicole Krauss

A Divorced Con-Artist And His Young Daughter Sell Empty Bottles Of 'holy' Air To Credulous Tourists.

In A Bombed-Out Beirut Radio Station, A Lebanese Scheherazade Enchants Three Young Soldiers With Her Nightly Tales.

Ahead Of A School 'show And Tell', Two Brothers Kidnap A Shoah Survivor From A Supermarket To Pose As Their Grandfather.

An Israeli Volunteer At A West Bank Checkpoint Mourns The Death Of Her Son, A Soldier Killed In Gaza.

From The Limestone Alleyways Of Jerusalem To The Desolate Negev Desert And The Sprawling Orange Groves Of Jaffa, Omer Friedlander's Stories Are Fairy Tales Turned On Their Head By The Stakes Of Real Life, Where Moments Of Fragile Intimacy Mix With Comedy And Notes Of The Absurd.

Casting His Eye, Not On The Region's Conflicts, But On The Hopes And Failures Of Its People, The Man Who Sold Air In The Holy Land Is At Times Darkly Funny, At Others Quietly Devastating.

'extraordinarily Imaginative . . . Every One Of These Stories Moved Me' Sigrid Nunez; An Exceptional Short Story Collection Set In Conflict Zones In The Middle East By A Prize-Winning Debut AuthorA Marvelous New Voice, Bringing Magic, Change And Surprise Without Ever Losing Sight Of The Human And The Real. I'd Follow This Writer AnywhereWhat Is Most Striking Is How Full Of Deeply Felt Human Experience And Authentic Emotion His Fiction Is. Every One Of These Stories Moved Me And Taught Me Something I Did Not Know BeforeAs Outrageously Funny As They Are Outrageously Tender, Friedlander's Stories Conjure Complex And Often Difficult Emotions With Perfect Acrobatic Skill. A Superb Collection[Omer Friedlander's Stories] Are So Vividly Drawn They Feel Like Whole Worlds In Themselves . . . I Fell In Love With These Weird, Wacky And Ultimately Human Characters. At Times Devastating, And Other Times Ridiculous, These Tales Will Stay With MeRarely Do We Encounter A Writer So Young But Also This Wise. Innovative In Conception, Classical In Spirit: A Splendid Literary DebutA Remarkable Talent. These Stories Transcend The Particular To Become Intricately Crafted Fables, Each A Country Unto ItselfOne Of Those Rare Authors Who Can Trap Each Moment In A Surprising And Somehow Perfect Detail. A Major Work - I'd Urge You To Read ItBeautifully Written . . . An Exceptionally Thoughtful WriterThere's A Touch Of Magic In These Stories Reminiscent Of I.B. Singer And Nathan Englander. But The World Friedlander Creates Is All His Own. Through His Orange-Grove Workers, Junk Collectors, Soldiers, And Grieving Mothers, He Makes Israel And Palestine-The Whole History Of The Middle East-Come Alive. The Man Who Sold Air In The Holy Land Is An Astonishing, Breathtaking Debut.Friedlander's Humane Explorations Of Love, Friendship And The Unending Cost Of Conflict, Against Backdrops That Range From Orange Groves In Jaffa To A Check Point In Gaza, Are In Turn Funny, Tender And Achingly CompassionateFriedlander's Skillfully Crafted, Imagistic Prose Captivates And Soars. With This Collection, Friedlander Positions Himself As Poised To Join A Formidable Cadre That Includes Writers Such As David Grossman And Etgar KeretFriedlander Imbues His Characters With A Deeply Felt Humanity, And His Finely Tuned Command Of Emotional Tenor Will Evoke Tears And Laughter In Equal MeasureOmer Friedlander Captures Israel Through A Lens That Is Equally Sensitive, Whimsical, And Critical...Through Depictions Of Universal Themes Such As Grief, Brotherhood, And Ancestral Ties, Friedlander Establishes Himself As A Writer With An Innate Gift For Capturing The Human ConditionThe Man Who Sold Air In The Holy Land Urges Us To Pay Attention To The Human Toll Of War With Sympathy And A Great Deal Of HeartBrilliant . . . Friedlander Is A Writer To WatchMasterfulThese Stories Triumph For Their Finely Tuned Character Portrayals And Evocation Of The Complexities Of Life In IsraelMoving And Dazzling Tightly Written, Intimate Portaits Of Lives Lived In Israel . . . Beautifully Crafted TalesIsraeli Literature Has Big Names. Amos Oz And David Grossman . . . Storytellers Who Penetrate Deep Into The Psyche Of Their Story's Characters. Now A New Promising Young Writer Has Emerged: Omer Friedlander.PowerfulElements Of The Near-Fantastic And A Comic Darkness That At Times Recalls The Work Of Salman Rushdie . . . Textual Richness That Situates Friedlander In The Ranks Of Masters Like Murakami . . . By Turns Bracingly Elegiac And Deeply, Darkly Funny, The Man Who Sold Air In The Holy Land Is A Stunning Debut, And Marks The Arrival Of A Writer Of Serious Gifts.An Impressive Literary Voice . . . Friedlander's Fierce Imagination Emerges To Make Its Own Surreal SenseOmer Friedlander Writes With The Wisdom Of A Much Older Writer Friedlander's Humane Explorations Of Love, Friendship And The Unending Cost Of Conflict, Against Backdrops That Range From Orange Groves In Jaffa To A Check Point In Gaza, Are In Turn Funny, Tender And Achingly Compassionate.

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Author

Omer Friedlander

Publisher

John Murray Press

Language

English

SKU

BK0461135

ISBN

9781399803946

Reading Age

All

Binding

Paperback

The Man Who Sold Air In The Holy Land

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