Aharon Megged | |
| Foiglman Zvi Arbel is an Israeli historian whose chosen field is Jewish history. His work is read by the Yiddish poet Foiglman, a Holocaust survivor who sends Arbel a volume of his own poetry. The relationship that springs up between the two men is one of ambivalence and fascination; the reserved Israeli historian alternatingly sympathetic and suspicious, affectionate and resentful, towards the enthusiastic but tormented poet. Arbel embarks on an effort to get Foiglman's poetry translated into Hebrew, but as Foiglman begins to monopolize more and more of his time, the relationship drives a wedge between Arbel and his wife that leads to tragedy. Winner of the French WIZO Prize Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-032-X Pages: 250 8¾"x5¾" US$ 19.95 More Info... |  |
| The Flying Camel and the Golden Hump by Aharon Megged A merciless literary critic may seem like a demonic figure to a writer anxiously awaiting the ultimate critical review of his work. Such is the plight of Kalman Keren, a writer who lives in an apartment building in Tel Aviv. When Keren notices Professor Shatz coming up the stairs of his building he almost goes into shock. Shatz is the hated literary critic who is every writer’s nightmare, and now he and his wife have moved into the apartment above Keren’s! Paperback: ISBN 978 1 59264 196 3 Pages: c.250 US$14.95 UK£9.99 CANADA $19.95 Publication date: November 2007 More Info... |  |
| The Living on the Dead The Living on the Dead is the history of a book that has not been written. Its central theme is the debt of the living to the dead, and in particular the effects on the heirs of Israel of their new and dearly bought nationality. Jonas is a writer, on trial for breach of contract. Commissioned to write the biography of a national hero, Davidov, he has after eighteen months and thousands of pounds of payment produced not a word. Despite the mountains of research and testimonies, he is oppressed and even rebuked by his subject's sanctity... even when he perceives that the idol's feet are of clay. Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-113-4 Pages: 250 8¾"x5¾" US$14.95 UK£9/99 Publication date: October 2005 More Info... |  |
| Mandrakes from the Holy Land In 1906 a young Englishwoman, a painter named Beatrice Campbell-Bennett, arrives in Palestine, intending to study and paint the flowers that are mentioned in the Old Testament. She is particularly interested in the mandrake, with which Leah bought a night of love with Jacob. Traveling with an Arab companion around the country, still under Ottoman rule, the Christian tourist becomes acquainted with everyday life in the Holy Land during the Jewish immigration wave known as the 'Second Aliyah.' Combining fact and fiction in the form of diary entries and letters, the novel reveals the heroine's complex and unstable personality... Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-057-5 Pages: 220 8¾"x5¾" US$22.95 £14.99 Publication date: October 2005 More Info... |  |
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