Moben: 37 books

Just what motivates a  writer to write, anyway?  Is it a need to expiate past experiences, an apprehension for the direction of the future, a need to slough off inner thoughts not aceptable to voice out loud? The Cathedral Mall plays out in a real-life futuristic city constructed around a...

In one of his major works, Lucena, Benarroch goes from time travel to social comment, which brings to mind the hilarious novels of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. An old odd ancient man is reaching the age of 1,000 years and has to pass his legacy to his great great great grandson, and prepares him for a journey...

It has happened to all of us, we're talking with our brother of a childhood memory and suddenly he says, but you didn't do that, I did. And that seems normal. But, what do we remember when we remember? Scientific studies show that in less than twenty-four hours we have already changed the memory of...

An unexpected encounter at the central bus station with a woman identical to the Expelled’s wife but thirty years younger, who happens to be the same person. An adulterous relationship that is not quite what it seems. A bus hijacked by terrorists, where two castes are formed, one superior, the...

Uno scrittore famoso e molto controverso scopre che un vecchio amico, che in gioventù apparteneva al suo stesso gruppo di scrittori della città di Irxal, è ricoverato in un ospedale psichiatrico. La sua malattia è bizzarra e sconosciuta ai dottori: ogni giorno assume le vesti di un personaggio...

Una selezione di 10 poesie  del poeta israeliano Mois Benarroch, che include la famosa poesia "Horses" .  

In the wake of a terrorist attack, Max Benamu manages to escape and takes a car which does not belong to him. He speeds down the road toward the Dead Sea.  He crashes into a truck and is mistaken for the owner of the Fiat Punto who perished in the attack.  After many months in a coma, he awakens...

Keys to Tetouan is the novel of the Benzimra family and its infinite branches expanded all over the world. They are born in the city of Tetouan, Morocco and emigrate to Madrid, New York, Paris, the Amazons, Jerusalem, Greece, and wherever the wind takes them. But they keep longing for the city and...

Reeling from the deaths of two loved ones, an Israeli writer travels to Spain—his ancestors’ homeland—for a conference of Sephardic Jews. In Seville, he finds a scarf that comforts him for thirteen days. Then, just as suddenly, it vanishes in Madrid. For the writer, the scarf becomes a symbol...

An international bestseller published in 7 languages (Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Hebrew, Arabic, English). "If I had a nomination vote for the nobel prize he'd be in the running." Klaus Gerken, Ygdrasil editor When the father of the Benzimra family dies, he leaves a will informing...

   "The Book of Lashes by Mois Benarroch is full of true poetry of the oldest genre of Hebrew poetry: Prophecy." Yitzhak Laor, Haaretz 11/29/2005 "The Israeli Bukowski." Yaron Avitov, Yediot Ajaronot, 1/11/2000 For the first time in English we get a full...

Book of poems published by Esquio directed by Julio Uceda. Mois Benarroch was born in Tetouan, Morocco, in 1959. At thirteen, he emigrates with his parents to Israel and lives in Jerusalem ever since. He started to write poetry at fifteen in English, then in Hebrew, and finally in his native...

There is someone behind us telling us that somewhere there exists another person in the world living a life parallel to ours; someone who feels the same things and is perhaps doing the same thing at this very moment. But what happens when two parallell lines intersect? The impossible happens, and...

Mois Benarroch leva-nos a sentir o amor: o amor sefardita, o amor exilado, o amor físico, o amor perdido, o amor poético, o amor amado, o amor platônico, o amor estético, o amor tétrico. Mais uma vez temos a oportunidade de adentrar suas memórias e histórias, numa retórica gotejante de ironia...