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Availability:In StockContributor:Maayan Eitan (Editor)Series:Akashic NoirPublish date:2023-11-07Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Akashic Books, Ltd.ISBN-13:9781617752292ISBN-10:1617752290UPC:9781617752292Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & Detective, Anthologies (multiple authors)Book Topic:Collections & Anthologies, International Crime & MysterySize:8.10 x 5.20 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SC5RMMFP2N
"Fifteen tales that capture the magic and mystery of everyday life in West Jerusalem, which has been the main area of Jewish population from the time of Israeli independence in 1948 . . . Whether these stories are peopled by soldiers, students, children, and parents, they keep asking, 'Who belongs in Jerusalem?' and its corollary, 'Who does Jerusalem belong to?'--the central questions of this volume, which handles them with heartfelt sensitivity. Pushes the boundaries of noir in a welcome new direction." --Kirkus Reviews

FROM THE EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION: "This anthology offers a fictional tour of Jerusalem, this time through the lens of the noir genre. Not all the stories in this book include a detective, a femme fatale, or a dead body. In fact, a significant number of the writers chose to avoid these genre staples. And yet the stories--each taking place in a different part of the city--sketch a dark, imagined map of the city, where religious mystery dwells alongside the quotidian, claustrophobic hubbub of the Central Bus Station . . . The stories included in West Jerusalem Noir could not have taken place anywhere else. They reflect national, religious, and socioeconomic tensions inherent to the city and sketch an image of a concrete, contemporary, and complicated Jerusalem."

Featuring brand-new stories by: Yiftach Ashkenazi, Ilana Bernstein, Emanuel Yitzhak Levi and Guli Dolev-Hashiloni, Liat Elkayam, Asaf Schurr, Yardenne Greenspan, Ilai Rowner, Zohar Elmakias, Ilan Rubin Fields, Nano Shabtai, Yaara Shehori, Tafat Hacohen-Bick, Nadav Lapid, Tehila Hakimi, and Oded Wolkstein.

West Jerusalem Noir is being published simultaneously with East Jerusalem Noir, edited by Rawya Jarjoura Burbara. The companion volume explores the city with brand-new stories by Palestinian authors.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Akashic Books, Ltd.ISBN-13:9781617752292ISBN-10:1617752290UPC:9781617752292Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & Detective, Anthologies (multiple authors)Book Topic:Collections & Anthologies, International Crime & MysterySize:8.10 x 5.20 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SC5RMMFP2N

Maayan Eitan's short fiction and essays have been published in the Kenyon Review, World Literature Today, and the Tel Aviv Review of Books; her work also appears regularly in Israeli literary magazines. She holds a master's degree in comparative literature from the University of Michigan and is currently pursuing a PhD in Hebrew literature in Israel. Love, her debut novel, was published in Israel in 2020; the English translation was published in the US in 2022 by Penguin Press.


Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.

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