About the Author

Yoram Kaniuk was an Israeli writer, journalist, theater critic, and painter. During the 1948 Israeli War for Independence, he fought with the elite unit of the Israeli army known as the Palmach. He is the author of Adam Resurrected, Confessions of a Good Arab, and The Last Jew. Raquel Garc�a Lozano is a professor of modern Hebrew language and literature at the Complutense University of Madrid.

Reviews

If the prophets of the Old Testament had read Joyce, Kafka, M�rquez, Conrad, and Gershom Scholem, listened to American Jazz, seen Broadway musicals, and heard Lenny Bruce, they might have sounded something like Kaniuk. --Nicole Krauss, author, Great House, The History of Love, and Man Walks Into a Room