Yoram Kaniuk: 7 books

DESCRIPTION In Between Life and Death, famed Israeli writer Yoram Kaniuk (“one of the most innovative, brilliant novelists in the Western World” —New York Times) describes the four months during which he lay unconscious in a Tel Aviv hospital, hovering between the world of the living...

“The first biography of Yossi Harel . . . offers valuable insights into the Jewish struggle to create a homeland.” —Booklist Hailed by the New York Times as “one of the most inventive, brilliant novelists in the Western world,” internationally renowned Israeli writer Yoram Kaniuk...

A whirlwind of art, music, and lust, Life on Sandpaper is Yoram Kaniuk's overwhelming autobiographical novel detailing his years as a young painter in the New York of the '50s. Wounded and alienated, a war veteran at the age of nineteen, Kaniuk arrives in Greenwich Village at its peak period of artistic...

“A layered, sweeping panorama of 20th Century Jewish life and identity.” —Publishers Weekly   Yoram Kaniuk has been hailed as “one of the most innovative, brilliant novelists in the Western World,” and The Last Jew is his exhilarating masterwork (The New York Times).   Like Gabriel García...

Sixty years after fighting in Israel's War of Independence, Yoram Kaniuk tries to remember what exactly did—and did not—happen in his time as a teenage soldier in the Palmach. The result is a touchingly poignant and hauntingly beautiful memoir that the author himself considers a work of fiction,...

„Wir waren wie Kinder, geradezu unverschämt jung. Einfaltspinsel waren wir, Partisanen.“ Dies ist die Geschichte eines jungen Mannes, der voller Heldenmut die Schule verlässt und kurz darauf dem Tod in die Arme läuft. Der im Mut die Sinnlosigkeit erkennen muss, die historische Schuld bei allem...

«Non sono sicuro di cosa ricordo per davvero, perché non mi fido della memoria. La memoria è furba e non possiede un’unica ed esclusiva verità. E poi che cosa conta sul serio? Una bugia che viene dalla ricerca della verità può essere più vera della verità. Tu pensi e un attimo dopo ricordi...