The Tel Aviv Dossier
by:
Lavie Tidhar (author)
Nir Yaniv (author)
Through a city torn apart by a violence they cannotcomprehend, three disparate people a documentary film-maker, a yeshivastudent, and a psychotic fireman must try to survive, and try to findmeaning: even if it means being lost themselves. As Tel Aviv is consumed, astrange mountain rises at the...
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Through a city torn apart by a violence they cannotcomprehend, three disparate people a documentary film-maker, a yeshivastudent, and a psychotic fireman must try to survive, and try to findmeaning: even if it means being lost themselves. As Tel Aviv is consumed, astrange mountain rises at the heart of the city, and shows the outline of whatmay be another, alien world beyond. Can there be redemption there? Can thefevered rumours of a coming messiah be true? As the city loses contact with theoutside world and closes in on itself, as the fewsurviving children play and scavenge in the ruins, can innocence survive, and isit possible for hope to spring amid such chaos?
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780980941050 (0980941059)
Publish date: March 16th 2010
Publisher: Chizine Publications
Pages no: 215
Edition language: English
I wasn't planning to start reading this. But I was moving books around and I flipped it open--as you do--glanced at a page, and spent the next moment blinking over the description of the severed head "flying through the window and proclaiming it was in love with me" (I'd want to check that quote; m...