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Isra-Isle
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Isra-Isle

BookPaperback
Ranking1199776inBelletristik
CHF28.90

Description

Equal parts detective novel, historical fantasia, and alternate history, Isra Isle offers a compelling exploration of modern Jewish identity.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-942134-19-0
Product TypeBook
BindingPaperback
Publishing date01/11/2016
Pages240 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 139 mm, Height 225 mm, Thickness 20 mm
Weight394 g
Article no.25632028
Publisher's article no.9781942134190
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.19708116
Product groupBelletristik
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Author

Nava Semel has published novels, short stories, poetry, plays, children's books, and a number of TV scripts. Her stories have been adapted for radio, film, TV, and stage in Israel, Europe, and the United States. Her books have been translated and published in many countries. Her novel And the Rat Laughed was adapted into a successful opera, and it is also being made into a feature film, directed by David Fisher. Semel is on the board of governors of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum. Her book Becoming Gershona received the 1990 National Jewish Book Award in the U.S. She has received many other literary prizes including the Women Writers of the Mediterranean Award (1994) and the Prime Minister's Prize (1996).

Jessica Cohen, translator, has worked with some of Israel's finest writers, including David Grossman, Etgar Keret, Assaf Gavron, Rutu Modan, Amir Gutfreund, Yael Hedaya, Ronit Matalon, and Tom Segev, as well as such prominent screenwriters as Ari Folman and Ron Leshem. She has served as a board member of the American Literary Translators Association, and is also a member of the American Translators Association, the Israel Translators Association, the Colorado Translators Association, and PEN American Center.