Take Up and Read
A Novel
$31.44
- Paperback
688 pages
- Release Date
29 November 2022
Summary
In the summer of 2014, at the height of the Gaza-Israel conflict, Elish Ben-Zaken met the poet and librarian Nahum Farkash in the border town of Sderot. The two men spoke only briefly, but in that brief encounter, Elish might have missed the key to unraveling the case of a Sderot woman who disappeared for three days, only to reappear with no memory of her time away.
In Take Up and Read, Shimon Adaf returns to Farkash’s story. Attempting to defend the legacy of the singer Dalia Shushan…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780374277970 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0374277974 |
| Author: | Shimon Adaf |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc |
| Imprint: | Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 688 |
| Release Date: | 29 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 529g |
| Dimensions: | 213mm x 142mm x 37mm |
| Series: | The Lost Detective Trilogy |
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Critics Review
“Adaf concludes his epic Lost Detective Trilogy with an extraordinary blend of science fiction, crime, and high fantasy … As with the previous installments, Adaf’s rich characterizations are complemented by the clever prose. The result is an instant classic.” –Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“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
About The Author
Shimon Adaf
Shimon Adaf was born in Sderot, Israel, and now lives in Jaffa. 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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