Evan Fallenberg Knihy

Brilantní román o jednotce izraelské armády strážící pevnost Beaufort v jiholibanonském bezpečnostním pásmu. Ron Lešem přináší precizní a nemilosrdně upřímný popis každodenního života vojáků na Beaufortu, na pozadí nálad v izraelské společnosti, volajících stále zřetelněji po stažení armády z jižního Libanonu. Lešemův román není v žádném případě románem oslavujícím válku či hrdinství v boji, ale svědectvím o kamarádství, mladistvé touze po dobrodružství, o sebeobětování a zranitelnosti lidské duše. Kniha byla kladně přijata nejen kritiky, ale i vojáky, kteří v jiholibanonském bezpečnostním pásmu sloužili. Ron Lešem za ni obdržel prestižní izraelskou literární cenu Pinchase Sapira. Kniha se stala předlohou k filmu Beaufort, za nějž získal režisér Joseph Cedar v roce 2007 stříbrného medvěda na Berlínském filmovém festivalu.

Awarded the 2009 Stonewall Prize for Fiction. Winner of the Publishing Triangle's 2008 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. Twenty years have passed since Joseph left his family and his religious Israeli community when he fell in love with a man, the brilliant rabbi Yoel Rosenzweig. Now, for his fiftieth birthday, Joseph is preparing to have his five sons and the daughter-in-law he has never met spend the Sabbath with him in his Tel Aviv penthouse. This will be the first time he and his sons will have all been together in nearly two decades.

“An unabashed tale that does not pull punches and looks at love’s underside…This breathless story should only be read in one sitting. It hits hard and never lets up. Terse, brusque, etched on one’s inner thigh with an old serrated knife.” —André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name This erotic tale of jealousy, obsession, and revenge is suffused with the rich flavors and intoxicating scents of Israel's Mediterranean coast. An unnamed narrator writes a letter to an old college friend, Adam, at whose place he has been crashing since his abrupt return to the States from Israel. Now that the narrator is moving on to a new location, he finally reveals the events that led him to Adam's door, set in motion by a chance encounter with Uzi, an older man with whom the narrator has just had an intense sexual relationship. From his first meeting with Uzi, the narrator is overwhelmed by an animal attraction that will lead him to derail his life, withdraw from friends and extend his stay in a small town north of Tel Aviv. As he becomes increasingly entangled in Uzi's life—and by extension the lives of Uzi's ex-wife and children—his passion turns sinister, ultimately threatening all around him. Written in a circuitous style reminiscent of Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley novels, The Parting Gift is a page-turner and a shrewd exploration of the roles men assume, or are forced to assume.