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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Matti FriedmanPublisher: Biteback Publishing Imprint: Biteback Publishing ISBN: 9781785900433ISBN 10: 1785900439 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 28 April 2016 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsMatti Friedman's haunting war memoir reminds one of Michael Herr's unforgettable Vietnam memoir, Dispatches. It, too, is destined to become a classic text on the absurdities of war. Evocative, emotionally wrenching, and yet clear-eyed and dispassionate, Pumpkinflowers is a stunning achievement. - Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and New York Times bestselling author of The Good Spy; Inspiring, heartbreaking, illuminating. - Yossi Klein Halevi, author of Like Dreamers; Riveting. Pumpkinflowers is both an historical jigsaw puzzle and an examination of Israel's fraught national identity. - Siobhan Fallon, author of You Know Where the Men Are Gone Matti Friedman's haunting war memoir reminds one of Michael Herr's unforgettable Vietnam memoir, Dispatches. It, too, is destined to become a classic text on the absurdities of war. Evocative, emotionally wrenching, and yet clear-eyed and dispassionate, Pumpkinflowers is a stunning achievement. - Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and New York Times bestselling author of The Good Spy; Inspiring, heartbreaking, illuminating. - Yossi Klein Halevi, author of Like Dreamers; Riveting. Pumpkinflowers is both an historical jigsaw puzzle and an examination of Israel's fraught national identity. - Siobhan Fallon, author of You Know Where the Men Are Gone; A haunting yet wry tale of young people at war, cursed by political forces beyond their control, that can stand alongside the best narrative nonfiction coming out of Afghanistan and Iraq. - Kirkus Reviews; Friedman has written a top-notch account of this under-analyzed war, persuasively arguing that it heralded a new style of combat in the Middle East, though no one knew it at the time... - New York Times Matti Friedman's haunting war memoir reminds one of Michael Herr's unforgettable Vietnam memoir, Dispatches. It, too, is destined to become a classic text on the absurdities of war. Evocative, emotionally wrenching, and yet clear-eyed and dispassionate, Pumpkinflowers is a stunning achievement. - Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and New York Times bestselling author of The Good Spy; Inspiring, heartbreaking, illuminating. - Yossi Klein Halevi, author of Like Dreamers; Riveting. Pumpkinflowers is both an historical jigsaw puzzle and an examination of Israel's fraught national identity. - Siobhan Fallon, author of You Know Where the Men Are Gone; A haunting yet wry tale of young people at war, cursed by political forces beyond their control, that can stand alongside the best narrative nonfiction coming out of Afghanistan and Iraq. - Kirkus Reviews Matti Friedman's haunting war memoir reminds one of Michael Herr's unforgettable Vietnam memoir, Dispatches. It, too, is destined to become a classic text on the absurdities of war. Evocative, emotionally wrenching, and yet clear-eyed and dispassionate, Pumpkinflowers is a stunning achievement. - Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and New York Times bestselling author of The Good Spy; Inspiring, heartbreaking, illuminating. - Yossi Klein Halevi, author of Like Dreamers; Riveting. Pumpkinflowers is both an historical jigsaw puzzle and an examination of Israel's fraught national identity. - Siobhan Fallon, author of You Know Where the Men Are Gone; A haunting yet wry tale of young people at war, cursed by political forces beyond their control, that can stand alongside the best narrative nonfiction coming out of Afghanistan and Iraq. - Kirkus Reviews; The collective portrait [of young Israeli soldiers] puts Pumpkinflowers on a par with Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried - its Israeli analog. - New York Times Author InformationMatti Friedman is the author of The Aleppo Codex, which won the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize, the American Library Association's Sophie Brody Medal, and other awards. A former correspondent for the Associated Press, hisreporting has taken him from Israel to Morocco, Lebanon, the Caucasus and Washington, DC, and his work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, the New York Times, Tablet, and elsewhere. He was born in Toronto and lives in Jerusalem. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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