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Sex in the Cemetery

In the title novella, a chance meeting of two old school friends from Jerusalem in the Manila international airport leads to a racy and ferocious chain of events in the foreign capital, including falling desparately in love with a local prostitute and getting shot at by her bugs-bunny-pajama-wearing pimp.
The fourteen other short stories deal with everyday life and death of young Israelis, coming to terms with the world outside their doorstep, being away from home, love, sex and memory.

"Gavron has a clear, full, masculine voice, scathing and rough. He is hardly ever off-key, not even when he describes violence or wild sex scenes, not even when he allows himself, rarely, to become poetic." >>>
Yigal Schwartz, Yediot Achronot


Israeli Edition:
Title: Min Bebet Haalmin
Publisher: Zmora-Bitan
Publication date: June 2000
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Reading Sample
Read the story CellShock from Sex in the cemetery here.



:: CrocAttack
:: Almost Dead
:: Hydromania
:: Moving
:: Sex in the Cemetery
:: Ice
:: Eating Standing Up



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