"“With echoes of Kafka and Conrad,” the acclaimed Israeli author of Castle in Spain offers “a provocative, spare, slow-to-unfold mystery of character” (Kirkus Reviews).On the day of his forty-first birthday, Israeli secret agent Alexander Abramov encounters a beautiful young redhead on a city bus. He immediately recognizes her as the woman he has been searching for all his life, the one he has loved forever. Though they have never met, h ..."
""I was totally enchanted by Minotaur, a book that transcends time. If Chekhov were to enter the room and ask where he should begin with contemporary literature, I would put Minotaur on his reading list, with the conviction that I would be introducing him to a kindred spirit."-Financial Times "A novel about the expectations and compromises that humans create for themselves . . . very much in the manner of William Faulkner and Lawrence Du ..."
Minotaur by BenjaminTammuz Paperback, 155 Pages, Published 1982 by Signet ISBN-13: 978-0-451-11582-9, ISBN: 0-451-11582-1
"(#AE1338-$2.95) D SMALL WORLD by Tabitha King. (#AE1408-$3.50) D THE
KISSING GATE by Pamela Haines. (#AE 1449— $3.50) D THE CROOKED
CROSS by Barth Jules Sussman. (#AE1203-$2.95) D CITY KID by Mary
MacCracken."
"Additional Contributors Include Miriam Yalan-Stekelis, Jacob Fichman, Ezra Spicehandler And Others."
The orchard(1st Edition) A novella by BenjaminTammuz Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 1984 by Copper Beech Press, Brown University ISBN-13: 978-0-914278-43-6, ISBN: 0-914278-43-6
"The Orchard plots the story of two brothers -- a Jew and a Muslim -- on the mythic ground of Palestine and against the historical background of the region from the closing days of the Ottoman occupation to the Israeli-Egyptian war of 1956. It is a tale of fratricide and incest, and the haunting, Biblical rhythms of the prose remind us that it tells an old, old story of violence and loss."
"This is the most ambitious and representative anthology yet published of modern Hebrew novellas, a book that will provide any reader with a fine overview of the best fiction that small but vibrant country has to offer.Included here are novellas by six of Israel's most important and honored contemporary writers. Aharon Appelfeld's "In the Isles of St. George" tells of a fugitive black marketeer hiding on a desolate Italian island, who fi ..."
Minotaur by BenjaminTammuz, Mildred Budny Hardcover, 210 Pages, Published 1981 by Dutton Adult ISBN-13: 978-0-453-00401-5, ISBN: 0-453-00401-6
""I was totally enchanted by Minotaur, a book that transcends time. If Chekhov were to enter the room and ask where he should begin with contemporary literature, I would put Minotaur on his reading list, with the conviction that I would be introducing him to a kindred spirit."-Financial Times "A novel about the expectations and compromises that humans create for themselves . . . very much in the manner of William Faulkner and Lawrence Du ..."
Minotaur by BenjaminTammuz 192 Pages, Published 2013 by Europa Editions Uk ISBN-13: 978-1-78770-056-7, ISBN: 1-78770-056-9
"Four lives are entwined in this intricate story of a solitary man driven from one side of Europe to the other by his obsession."
Minotaur by BenjaminTammuz Published 2011 ISBN-13: 978-1-60945-921-5, ISBN: 1-60945-921-0
Requiem for Na'aman(1st Edition) by BenjaminTammuz Hardcover, 228 Pages, Published 1982 by Dutton Adult ISBN-13: 978-0-453-00417-6, ISBN: 0-453-00417-2
"Six Israeli Novellas offers work by six of Israel's most important contemporary authors. Included are Aharon Appelfeld's "In the Isles of St. George," in which a fugitive black marketeer - a modern reincarnation of the eternal Wandering Jew - is forced to take refuge on a desolate Italian island, where his past, his Jewishness, and his very sense of identity are resolved. In "Yani on the Mountain," David Grossman explores the psychologi ..."
Il minotauro (Paperback) by BenjaminTammuz Paperback, Published 1997 by E/O ISBN-13: 978-88-7641-920-1, ISBN: 88-7641-920-9
Minotauro, El (Spanish Edition) by BenjaminTammuz Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 1997 by Destino Ediciones ISBN-13: 978-84-233-2846-8, ISBN: 84-233-2846-5