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CrocAttack! / Almost Dead
Eitan Enoch - 'Croc' to his friends - is taking his usual bus to work in Tel Aviv one morning when a fellow passenger starts to worry about the dark-skinned man with the suit-bag up at the front.
Thus begins a week of bloody bombings and bloodier reprisals, at the end of which Croc is transformed into an inadvertent national celebrity. He becomes 'CrocAttack - the man the terrorists couldn't kill'. Naturally, the Palestinian cell behind the attacks are less than happy about this reluctant symbol of Israeli defiance. They may not have been after him before, but they are now.
Meanwhile, in a hospital somewhere in Jerusalem, a young Palestinian suicide bomber lies in a coma, fighting for his life and trying to piece together how he got there - and just exactly what happened when he finally encountered the Croc.
Fast as a thriller, blackly funny and very contemporary, CrocAttack! is the story of the lethal convergence of two very different lives, and of a country exploding around them.
"Assaf Gavron has done the impossible: written a darkly funny novel about suicide bombing. In a dazzling display of empathy, Gavron creates two equally compelling narrators, the bomber and his victim. This is a virtuoso work; a pitch-perfect rendering of real Israeli life in all its chaos, energy, humour and terror. I couldn't put it down."
Geraldine Brooks, author of Pulitzer Prize winner "March".
"Shrewdly, rhythmically, and provocatively, Assaf Gavron connects the life stories of two men who share a fate: Israel..."
Stern Magazine, Germany
For many more reviews, interviews etc. in several language, go to the media archive.
 US Edition:
Title: Almost Dead
Publisher: HarperCollins
Translators: Assaf Gavron and James Lever
Publication date: April 2010
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 Canadian Edition:
Title: Almost Dead
Publisher: Harper Canada
Translators: Assaf Gavron and James Lever
Publication date: April 2010
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 UK Edition:
Title: CrocAttack!
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Translators: Assaf Gavron and James Lever
Publication date: February 2010
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 Italian Edition:
Title: La mia storia, la tua storia
Publisher: Mondadori
Translators: Stefano Zolli and Davide Mano
Publication date: September 2009
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 Dutch Edition:
Title: Krokodil van de aanslagen
Publisher: Ailantus
Translator: Hilde Pach
Publication date: August 2009
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 German Paperback Edition:
Title: Ein Schones Attentat
Publisher: btb
Translator: Barbara Linner
Publication date: February 2010
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German Hardcover Edition:
Title: Ein Schones Attentat
Publisher: Luchterhand
Translator: Barbara Linner
Publication date: March 2008
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 Israeli Edition:
Title: Tanin Pigua
Publisher: Kinneret-Zmora-Bitan
Publication date: March 2006
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 French Edition:
Title: TBA
Publisher: Payot & Rivages
Translator: Sylvie Cohen
Publication date: Fall 2010
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 Movie Rights
Movie option sold to:
Arden Film, Berlin, Germany.
 Reading Sample
Read the first chapter of CrocAttack (in English) here.
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