Last Bullet Calls It

In this award-winning mystery by one of Israel’s best-loved authors, a plot of vengeance reveals deeper truths about the complexity of being human.Coupon-clipping police superintendent Jonah Merlin thinks he has an open-and-shut case on his hands after the body of a beautiful woman is found discarded in a run-down building in Tel Aviv. All evidence points to two suspects, but finding them will require unorthodox methods to decode the cryptic words sprayed at every crime scene.As the body count rises, graffiti expert Rai Zitrin and precocious seventeen-year-old Zoe Navon agree to help Merlin uncover the connection between the killing spree and the words of Polish writer Bruno Schulz, who was murdered by Nazis seventy years ago.Why would a serial killer quote the famous author’s poetic words of unrequited love? The search leads this unlikely trio on a race against the clock to solve the case before the killer has the last laugh...and the last bullet.

Literature & Fiction

Amir Gutfreund

Humor & Satire

BRILLIANCE AUDIO ^

Amir and Effi collected relatives. With Holocaust survivors for parents and few other 'real' relatives alive, relationships operated under a 'Law of Compression' in which tenuous connections turned friends into uncles, cousins and grandparents. Life was framed by Grandpa Lolek, the parsimonious and eccentric old rogue who put his tea bags through Selektion, and Grandpa Yosef, the neighborhood saint, who knew everything about everything, but refused to talk of his own past. Amir and Effi also collected information about what happened Over There. This was more difficult than collecting relatives; nobody would tell them any details because they weren't yet Old Enough. The intrepid pair won't let this stop them, and their quest for knowledge results in adventures both funny and alarming, as they try to unearth their neighbors' stories. As Amir grows up, his obsession with understanding the Holocaust remains with him, and finally Old Enough to know, the unforgettable cast of characters that populate his world open their hearts, souls, and pasts to him.

Our Holocaust

Toby Pr

Journalist Leon Abramowitz never intended to immigrate to Palestine. Yet in 1922 four years after he was sent there from Europe to report in the lives of the pioneers, he discovers that the editor who dispatched him has run off with half the papers money leaving Leon forgotten in The Promised Widerness. This chain of events opens The World a Moment Later, which tells the story of Abramowitz and his two childern. This is also the story of Yehezkel Klein, an ex-underground activist who wanted to be a 'regular' Zionist but finds himself instead taking a vow of protest against his country- to never leave his apartment; Lev Gutkin, a handsome Russian who arrives in Israel with a smoking gun after his longstanding plan to assassinate Stalin is thwarted when Stalin dies; David Bonhopper, a rightous nomad who tends to poor souls who have been neglected even by Social Services; the late Noami Riklin who still controls the life of Doctor Riklin, healer of the infertile; and Shmuel Klein, an electrician by profession and a pyromaniac by hobby. The shadow book of the official Zionist lexicon. It is the book of those forgotten by the national narrative of Israel, collected here to be remembered. Translated by Jessica Cohen.

The World a Moment Later

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