"Alte Sachen": From The Life Of An Arab Scrap Dealer In Israel - a Middle East Short Story

Product Information

While I understand that this is an accepted approach in literary fiction, I doubt it will ever gain widespread popularity. The stories give insight into Isreael’s recent history, but more importantly they give a human voice.

It was a playground of rusted dinosaurs, carcasses of cars spilling metallic guts, rusted spinal cords, dust-coated engine hearts.

The book reads like poetry; I found myself reading a couple of stories at a time then setting it aside for a little bit, to give myself the space to fully take in and appreciate what I’d just read. Around us, children in costumes shrieked by, and for once, Shoni did not look out of place in his panda mask. The second group was behaving normally – offspring and parents were equally noisy and invasive and one of them even tried, vainly, of course, to get hold of my pricy and comfortable seat. These essential cookies are placed as soon as you access the site because they are required for navigation. Für diese Rückzahlung verwende ich dasselbe Zahlungsmittel, das Sie bei der ursprünglichen Transaktion eingesetzt haben, es sei denn, mit Ihnen wurde ausdrücklich etwas anderes vereinbart; in keinem Fall werden Ihnen wegen dieser Rückzahlung Entgelte berechnet.

Some of the stories that stood out to me were the ones featuring a grieving left-wing activist mother, orange trees in Jaffa, as well as two Sephardic boys adopting a Holocaust Survivor. Every once in a while, he would say something weird, like did you know in Japan they sold Hercules Beetles in vending machines? Alternativ kann der Käufer den Artikel durch Anklicken des gleichnamigen Buttons "In den Warenkorb legen" und von dort aus durch Anklicken des Buttons "Bestellung absenden" erwerben. From the limestone alleyways of Jerusalem to the desolate Negev Desert and the sprawling orange groves of Jaffa, Omer Friedlander's stories are fairy tales turned on their head by the stakes of real life, where moments of fragile intimacy mix with comedy and notes of the absurd.The forbidden relationships across accepted 'party lines' felt cruel, and the dangerous conflict between settlers and Israeli citizens who do not support expansion of the country really emphasised the lack of homogenous identity that exists. The plane to Israel was stacked with a bunch of Semitic characters: young Israeli unmarried couples and Israeli Arab families largely provided with children. Bei Fragen zur Erhebung, Verarbeitung oder Nutzung Ihrer personenbezogenen Daten, bei Auskünften, Berichtigung, Sperrung oder Löschung von Daten sowie Widerruf erteilter Einwilligungen oder Widerspruch gegen eine bestimmte Datenverwendung wenden Sie sich bitte direkt an mich über Brief (Andreas Janda, Online-Handel mit Antiquitäten, Einzelunternehmen, Dorotheenstraße 18, 33615 Bielefeld, Deutschland), E-Mail: mail [at] alte-sachen-321 [dot] com oder Mobiltelefon (0178 - 187 91 97). He slept with a little light on, which I got used to somehow, but he still had nightmares frequently. It’s one of these infinite things about Israel/Palestine which is a slap in the face of oversimplification.