{"product_id":"where-i-am-9781954404144","title":"Where I Am","description":"\"Serves up heaping portions of yearning, passion, alienation, and regret, and establishes Dana Shem-Ur as one of the rising stars of the new Israeli literature.\"--\u003cb\u003eJoshua Cohen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Netanyahus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eA piercing novel about life abroad in a cultural setting not one's own: Reut is an Israeli translator living in Paris with a French husband and their child. She's made sacrifices for her family but now feels a simmering discontent and estrangement that erupts at a festive dinner party with affluent, intellectual friends. During the sumptuous meal, she navigates a tangle of cultural codes with which she's never been fully at ease. This is a novel about big life choices that examines a woman's attitudes toward belonging to a man, to a culture, to a language. \u003ci\u003eWhere I Am\u003c\/i\u003e is an intimate, witty book portraying a profoundly human yearning to stop everything, to lay down one's head, and to feel--if only for a moment--at home.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDana Shem-Ur\u003c\/b\u003e lived in Paris for three years and obtained a master's degree in philosophy from the École Normale Supérieure. She is a Ph.D. candidate in history at Tel Aviv University who translates from French, Italian, and Chinese into Hebrew.\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYardenne Greenspan\u003c\/b\u003e has translated writing by Israeli authors including Shemi Zarhin, Yitzhak Gormezano-Goren, Rana Werbin, Yaakov Shabtai, and Gon Ben Ari.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New Vessel Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525878812946,"sku":"9781954404144","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f83a1829-a906-4f19-99cb-56cba4af0045.jpg?v=1731246393","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/where-i-am-9781954404144","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}