Yehoshua Kenaz, Author , trans. from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu. Steerforth/Zoland $19.95 (600p) ISBN 978-1-58195-205-6
Hailed as Kenaz's masterpiece when it was first published in 1986, this mammoth novel by one of Israel's leading novelists (The Way to the Cats; Musical Moment) is a powerful exploration of military life and Israeli society in microcosm. Set
READ FULL REVIEW
Yehoshua Kenaz, Author, Dalya Bilu, Translator Steerforth Press $14 (0p) ISBN 978-1-883642-48-8
PW called Israeli novelist Kenaz's tale of a retired schoolteacher's struggle with old age in a Tel Aviv geriatric hospital ``a throbbing hymn to life.'' (Oct.)
READ FULL REVIEW
Yehoshua Kenaz, Author, Dalya Bilu, Translator Zoland Books $14 (250p) ISBN 978-1-58642-013-0
Reading this clever, humorous and original novel is like spending an afternoon with a con artist, cooperating fully as you are stripped of your money, jewels and gold fillings: even after everything is gone, you still feel good. Horan (Life in ...
READ FULL REVIEW
Yehoshua Kenaz, Author, Dalya Bilu, Translator Steerforth Press $20 (325p) ISBN 978-1-883642-20-4
A throbbing hymn to life, Israeli novelist Kenaz's unflinching exploration of the indignities, loneliness and struggles of old age centers on crusty Yolanda Moscowitz, a 76-year-old retired French teacher living in a Tel Aviv geriatric hospital...
READ FULL REVIEW
Yehoshua Kenaz, Author, Dalia Bilu, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $16.95 (216p) ISBN 978-0-15-103959-3
This bleak evocation of a colony that will one day become a thriving suburb of Tel Aviv takes a strong grip on readers, thrusting them into embattled households and secret lives. The Weiss family, newly arrived from eastern Europe, resides in a...
READ FULL REVIEW
Yehoshua Kenaz, Author, Betsy Rosenberg, Translator, Dalya Bilu, Translator Steerforth Press $19.5 (0p) ISBN 978-1-883642-18-1
Written with great sensuality and passion, these potent stories portray young misfits wandering through a nightmarish adult world. In seamless, rhythmic prose, Israeli novelist Kenaz (The Way to the Cats) portrays the artists as young men in four...
READ FULL REVIEW
Yehoshua Kenaz, Author, Porter Manuals, Author, Betsy Rosenberg, Translator Zoland Books $12 (176p) ISBN 978-1-883642-47-1
Written with great sensuality and passion, these potent stories portray young misfits wandering through a nightmarish adult world. In seamless, rhythmic prose, Israeli novelist Kenaz (The Way to the Cats) portrays the artists as young men in four...
READ FULL REVIEW
