{"product_id":"khirbet-khizeh-paperback-1","title":"Khirbet Khizeh - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eS. Yizhar\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eNicholas de Lange\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eDavid Shulman\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Exhilarating . . . How often can you say about a harrowing, unquiet book that it makes you wrestle with your soul?\" --Neel Mukherjee, \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e (London) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's 1948 and the Arab villagers of Khirbet Khizeh are about to be violently expelled from their homes. A young Israeli soldier who is on duty that day finds himself battling on two fronts: with the villagers and, ultimately, with his own conscience. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Published just months after the founding of the state of Israel and the end of the 1948 war, the novella \u003ci\u003eKhirbet Khizeh\u003c\/i\u003e was an immediate sensation when it first appeared. Since then, the book has continued to challenge and disturb, even finding its way onto the school curriculum in Israel. The various debates it has prompted would themselves make \u003ci\u003eKhirbet Khizeh\u003c\/i\u003e worth reading, but the novella is much more than a vital historical document: it is also a great work of art. Yizhar's haunting, lyrical style and charged view of the landscape are in many ways as startling as his wrenchingly honest view of modern Israel's primal scene. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Considered a modern Hebrew masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eKhirbet Khizeh\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary and heartbreaking book that is destined to be a classic of world literature.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eS. Yizhar\u003c\/b\u003e was the pen name of Yizhar Smilansky, born in Rehovot in 1916. A longtime member of the Knesset, he is most famous as the author of \u003ci\u003eKhirbet Khizeh\u003c\/i\u003e and the untranslated magnum opus \u003ci\u003eDays of Ziklag\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in 2006. \u003cb\u003eNicholas de Lange\u003c\/b\u003e, a professor emeritus of Hebrew and Jewish studies at Cambridge University, has translated many Hebrew novels, including \u003ci\u003ePreliminaries\u003c\/i\u003e by S. Yizhar (2007). \u003cb\u003eYaacob Dweck\u003c\/b\u003e translated Haim Sabato's \u003ci\u003eThe Dawning of the Day\u003c\/i\u003e (2006). He is an assistant professor of history and Judaic studies at Princeton University. \u003cb\u003eDavid Shulman\u003c\/b\u003e teaches Sanskrit and other Indian languages at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published numerous books and is the author of \u003ci\u003eDark Hope: Working for Peace in Israel and Palestine\u003c\/i\u003e (2007). Shulman was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1987.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.4 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 09, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47227824079097,"sku":"9780374535568","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/OHJYekh1Q3JlYU5nVFVKZlBrQklvQT09_e280f362-f924-43b0-a125-421ceb79b9bf.webp?v=1768285593","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/khirbet-khizeh-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}