Bøger af Yoram Kaniuk

Susan Sontag writes: "Of the novelists I have discovered in translation . . . the three for whom I have the greatest admiration are Gabriel Garci a Ma rquez, Peter Handke, and Yoram Kaniuk."

Under Anden Verdenskrig tages en jødisk mand til fange, idet han forsøger at flygte over grænsen til Schweiz. Tredive år senere opsøger den jødiske mand, der har overlevet Auschwitz, nu konen til dén bondemand, der for mange år siden pågreb ham og udleverede ham til nazisterne. Gennem deres samtaler oprulles en gribende historie, der blandt andet afslører sandheden om det barn, som bondens kone fødte ni måneder efter flygtningen var blevet pågrebet. En søn, der hele sit liv har søgt efter sin sande identitet. Yoram Kaniuk (1930-2013) var en israelsk forfatter, maler, journalist og teaterkritiker. I sit forfatterskab er han især kendt for sin sorte og temmelig bizarre humor, og han har modtaget adskillige litterære priser.

The final literary testament of "e;one of the most innovative, brilliant novelists in the Western World"e; (New York Times), Between Life and Death is a startlingly brave, funny, poetic, and moving autobiographical novel about the four months Yoram Kaniuk spent in a coma near the end of his life. In Between Life and Death, famed Israeli writer Yoram Kaniuk describes the four months during which he lay unconscious in a Tel Aviv hospital, hovering between the world of the living and that of the dead. Told in an arresting, dreamlike style that blends playfulness with fearless honesty, Kaniuk attempts to penetrate his own lost consciousness and understand what led him to fight for his life with such tenacity.Shifting between memory and illusion, imagination and testimony, Kaniuk inquires into the place of death in society, the lust for life, and the force of human relationships. He also writes movingly about the Holocaust survivors of his childhood neighborhood, and the battles of the 1948 War of Independence, in which he fought. Full of renewed vitality at the age of seventy-four, Kaniuk announced his rebirth in Between Life and Death, and left us a treasure of world literature that is sure to become a classic.