“A witty, sarcastic gem of a novel about day to day life in Israel with mass chaos going ona witty, sarcastic gem of a novel about day to day life in Israel with mass chaos going on… Almost Dead will make you think for days after finishing it.” Review of Almost Dead by Amy Steele on the Entertainment Realm blog.
Review of Almost Dead in the Entertainment Realm blog
August 27th, 2010“Read My Country” on BBC World Service
August 9th, 2010
Recommendation of three novels on Israel (Meir Shalev, Etgar Keret, Mark Twain) in “Read My Country”, On The Strand on BBC World Service radio.
Listen to the show (may be online for a limited time)
Biography in Berlin International Literature festival
August 1st, 2010
Author biography in the 2010 Berlin International Literature Festival website.
My events in the festival will take place on 21 and 22 September.
Review of Almost Dead in Winnipeg Free Press
July 31st, 2010
“This darkly comic and profoundly moving novel should be compulsory reading for everyone who ventures an opinion on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
Review of Almost Dead by Sharon Chisvin in the Winnipeg Free Press,
Review of Almost Dead in Edmonton Journal, Canada
July 23rd, 2010
Fahmi gradually emerges as much more than a cipher. In fact, with Croc’s essentially apolitical nature, his relatively privileged social position and his more or less conventional response to his extraordinary situation, it’s finally “”Fahmi’s story that emerges as the more textured, complex and provocative of the two… this is precisely where Almost Dead’s deeper strengths and its pointed challenge lies.”
Review by Jose Tedoro, published in the Edmonton Journal, Canada.
Review of Almost Dead in The Next Best Book Blog
July 3rd, 2010“With Almost Dead, not only did I read a fantastic story of survival and confusion, hatred and forgiveness, but I learned so much about a topic and a culture that I had no previous experience with or knowledge of before and I felt an intimate connection with the two main characters.”
Review of Almost Dead in The Next Best Book Blog.
Review of Almoist Dead in The Globe and Mail, Canada
June 29th, 2010
“an ambitious novel that succeeds in large part because of its brutal honesty and fearlessness, painting a vivid picture of the most insoluble conflict of our time with a master’s hand.” Review by Jonathan Papernick in The Globe and Mail, Canada.
The review is quoted in wltx.com, timewarnercable.com, and for some reason gossip site americanidolizing.com.
On Almost Dead in Reviews From a Serial Reader blog
June 23rd, 2010“The fear in this piece is staggering and the questioning that goes along with that fear is incomprehensible to anyone living outside this state of existence.”
On Almost Dead in the Reviews From a Serial Reader blog.
Review of Almost Dead in The Little Reader blog
June 8th, 2010“The writing was sharp and humorous, and the story pulled along at a steady pace throughout… the ending was just wow! i think i read the last 50 pages in a blink… this book just took me by surprise, in a good way.”
Review in The Little Reader blog.
מסיבת עיתונאים של הנינג מנקל על המשט לעזה
June 5th, 2010
כשמנקל נכנס לאולם נשמעת מחיאת כף בודדת ותקתוקים אינסופיים של מצלמות, שלא ייפסקו במשך השעה, ויתגברו כשהוא יניע את ידיו בהתרגשות. הוא מתיישב מאחורי השולחן. שיערו לבן, קצת ארוך, חולצתו שחורה, חזהו רחב. ההוצאה לאור חילקה חומר שיווקי על הספר החדש, “האויב בצלליות”, אבל כמובן שבמהלך השעה של מסיבת העיתונאים לא נאמרה על הספר מילה אחת
מסיבת עיתונאים של הנינג מנקל על המשט, ברלין