{"product_id":"the-man-who-fell-into-a-puddle-isbn-9780375724770","title":"The Man Who Fell Into a Puddle","description":"\"Throughout my life as a journalist,\" writes Igal Sarna in his preface, \"I have written about Israeli traumas and have seen how new lives are built on the ruins. How a new land sprouts out from a charred ground zero.\" In this striking collection of essays, Sarna taps his powers as an acclaimed investigative journalist to uncover the fascinating, wrenching experiences of Israeli men and women clinging to their stories, their history, their hope.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeditations on memory and personal mythology, these superb essays startle as they move, all the while offering a unique perspective on  contemporary Israel.\"Clever, mischievous and humane, this is literary journalism in the proud tradition of Ryszard Kapuscinski and Joseph Roth.\"--Amos Elon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Sarna has elevated the human-interest story to an art form. His book sheds light on human suffering in general, and the Israeli experience in particular. These fascinating accounts reveal a truth that is stranger than fiction, and a good deal stronger as well.”--\u003ci\u003eThe Dallas Morning News\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Incantory. . . .Sarna writes searingly of the Jewish experience. . . . He understands that horror often hides in the small details, the seemingly trivial. His story \"Whoever Knew Shut Up or Died,\" in simply tracing the fate of an Israeli family trying to track down a baby lost in Poland during the horror, may be as unforgettable an expression of the numbing legacy of the Nazi murder of Jews as anything out there.”—\u003ci\u003eThe San Francisco Chronicle \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Short, haunting and delicately drawn portraits, of settlers, soldiers, artists, [and] war heroes. [Sarna] touches on all the themes of Israel’s modern tragedy. Thoughtful and humane. . .A marvellous book”—\u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eIgal Sarna was born in 1952 and served as a tank commander in the Yom Kippur War in 1973. He writes for the daily newspaper \u003ci\u003eYediot Aharonot\u003c\/i\u003e and was one of the founders of the Peace Now movement. He received the IBM Tolerance Prize for a series of cover stories on Iranian political prisoners in Israel, and in 1998 he was awarded a Fulbright grant and spent a semester at the University of Iowa International Writing Program. He has published, in Hebrew, a biography of the poet Yona Wallach, a novel, \u003cb\u003eTzayad Ha-Zikaron (Hunter of Memory)\u003c\/b\u003e and most recently, \u003cb\u003eMuzungu: The Story of the Airplane that Crashed on the Moon-Mountains\u003c\/b\u003e. He lives in Tel Aviv with his wife and two children.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304123814117,"sku":"NP9780375724770","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375724770.jpg?v=1767740398","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-man-who-fell-into-a-puddle-isbn-9780375724770","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}