Close encounters with twenty Israeli writers
By: Eilat Negev ; introduction by Risa Domb.
Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: Authors, Hebrew -- Israel -- Biography.; Authors, Hebrew -- Israel -- Interviews.; Authors, Israeli -- Biography.; Authors, Israeli -- Interviews.
Genres: Biography.; Interviews.
Description: "Close Encounters is a unique collection of twenty profiles of prominent Israeli writers, including Agnon, Yehuda Amichai, Aaron Appelfeld, Amos Oz, A. B. Yehoshua, David Grossman, Meir Shalev, Orly Castel-Bloom and Dorit Rabinyan. It is a first of its kind; each profile is based upon interviews and research, and provides intimate background to each writer and their work. Together, the twenty Close Encounters create a panorama of the Israeli experience - Diaspora, Holocaust, immigration, gender, the tension between religious and secular, Sephardi and Ashkenazi, Jews and Arabs."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.