{"product_id":"west-jerusalem-noir-9781636141879","title":"West Jerusalem Noir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWest Jerusalem Noir\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--published simultaneously with \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEast Jerusalem Noir\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--the Akashic Noir Series visits one of the world's most complex locales, in this volume from the perspective of Israeli writers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the editor's introduction: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"This anthology offers a fictional tour of Jerusalem, this time through the lens of the noir genre. Not all the stories in this book include a detective, a femme fatale, or a dead body. In fact, a significant number of the writers chose to avoid these genre staples. And yet the stories--each taking place in a different part of the city--sketch a dark imagined map of the city, where religious mystery dwells alongside the quotidian, claustrophobic hubbub of the Central Bus Station . . . The stories included in \u003cem\u003eWest Jerusalem Noir\u003c\/em\u003e could not have taken place anywhere else. They reflect national, religious, and socioeconomic tensions inherent to the city and sketch an image of a concrete, contemporary, and complicated Jerusalem.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFeaturing brand-new stories by\u003c\/strong\u003e: Yiftach Ashkenazi, Ilana Bernstein, Emanuel Yitzhak Levi and Guli Dolev-Hashiloni, Liat Elkayam, Assaf Schurr, Yardenne Greenspan, Ilay Rowner, Zohar Elmakias, Ilan Rubin Fields, Nano Shabtai, Yaara Shehori, Tafat Hacohen-Bick, Nadav Lapid, Tehila Hakimi, and Oded Wolkstein.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWest Jerusalem Noir\u003c\/em\u003e is being published simultaneously with \u003cem\u003eEast Jerusalem Noir, \u003c\/em\u003e edited by Rawya Jarjoura Burbara. The companion volume explores the city with brand-new stories by Palestinian authors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaayan Eitan\u003c\/strong\u003e's short fiction and essays have been published in the \u003cem\u003eKenyon Review, World Literature Today, \u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eTel Aviv Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e; her work also appears regularly in Israeli literary magazines. She holds a master's degree in comparative literature from the University of Michigan and is currently pursuing a PhD in Hebrew literature in Israel. \u003cem\u003eLove, \u003c\/em\u003e her debut novel, was published in Israel in 2020; the English translation was published in the US in 2022 by Penguin Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Akashic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50526311383314,"sku":"9781636141879","price":37.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_67c585e3-f833-4d98-b256-5cef3d78bbaf.jpg?v=1731269558","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/west-jerusalem-noir-9781636141879","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}