A Detective's Complaint
A Novel
$27.82
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
29 November 2022
Summary
These days, Elish Ben Zaken has traded working as a private investigator for writing detective novels based on unsolved cases from the past. He appears to live an ordinary writer’s life: meeting with his agent, attending literary conferences. But all is not quite right with Elish, who cannot escape his past so easily, especially when his sister’s daughter, Tahel, a teenager and aspiring sleuth herself, calls on him for help. Tahel has uncovered a mystery: a young woman boarded a bus in Beersh…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780374139650 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0374139652 |
| Author: | Shimon Adaf |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc |
| Imprint: | Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 29 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 344g |
| Dimensions: | 31mm x 138mm x 211mm |
| Series: | The Lost Detective Trilogy |
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Critics Review
“Moving and perceptive … The author also has a keen ear for the cacophonous region, which Greenspan conveys in a flavorful translation. This series continues to delight.” –Publishers Weekly
“Shimon Adaf is my literary hero, a fearless explorer with the endless curiosity of a child and the skill of an Old Master, combined to unleash strange and wonderful masterpieces on the world. In his Lost Detective Trilogy, what begins as conventional mystery becomes by degrees a brilliant deconstruction not just of genre but of our own search for meaning. Both profound and compulsively readable, these books demand to be devoured.” –Lavie Tidhar, author of By Force Alone
Shimon Adaf
Shimon Adaf was born in Sderot, Israel, and now lives in Holon. A poet, novelist and musician, Adaf worked for several years as a literary editor at Keter Publishing House, and has also been a writer-in-residence at Iowa University. He leads the creative writing program and lectures on Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Yardenne Greenspan is a writer and Hebrew translator born in Tel Aviv and based in New York.
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