Different Stories
Klappentext:Inspired by the belief that their fiction can co-exist in the same book, Palestinian Samir El-youssef and Israeli Etgar Keret, have engaged in a provocative artistic collaboration.
These darkly humorous tales reflect the dreams and nightmares of living in Israel today and in Lebanon during the first intifada.
Über die Autorin / über den Autor:Etgar Keret was born in Tel Aviv in 1967. His fifteen stories in Gaza Blues are taken from the best of his short fiction collections Pipelines, Missing Kissinger, Kneller's Happy Campers and Anihu. All his works have been bestsellers in Israel and his work has been translated into fourteen languages to date. He has also written comic books and screenplays. His movies Red Heart and Skin Deep have won Israeli Oscars. He lectures at Tel Aviv University's School of Film.
Samir El-youssef was born in 1965 in Lebanon. He was brought up in Rashidia refugee camp in southern Lebanon. His first collection of short stories Domestic Affairs was published in Beirut in 1994 in Arabic by AISP. A new collection of stories Afternoon of Silence was published in 2003 in Arabic by Merit, in Cairo. His literary study of the Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani is forthcoming from Biann Press in Beirut. He writes regularly for Al Hayat and other Arab newspapers and literary journals worldwide. He holds a master's degree in Philosophy from Birkbeck College, University of London. He lives in London.
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