Between Life and Death (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781632060921)

The final literary testament of "one of the most innovative, brilliant novelists in the Western World" (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.

Author: Yoram Kaniuk
ISBN-10: 1632060922
ISBN-13: 9781632060921
Publisher: Restless Books
Language: English
Published: 09/13/2016
Pages: 222
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.30w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2016
Library Journal 10/01/2016 pg. 70