
And the War Is Over . . .
Shmuel T. Meyer(Author)
Seagull Books London Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 2. December 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
300 pages
978-1-80309-340-6 (ISBN)
Description
Three short story collections that sink into the lives of characters seeking meaning in a post-war world, available in a boxed set.
Sharp as a razor and as subtle as gossamer, Shmuel T. Meyer's masterfully crafted stories evoke unique individual sensibilities and destinies, resonating with the sensual details, smells, tastes, music, and sounds of a specific time and place. And the War Is Over brings together three collections of short stories set on three continents in the aftermath of war: World War II and the Shoah in Grand European Express, the Korean War in The Great American Disaster, and the Arab-Israeli conflict in Kibbutz.
Characters both real and imagined run through a fabric so tightly woven that the threads of history and fiction can barely be separated: the Roman poet Clara who will never write again; Saul, a New York City police detective haunted by memories of the Pusan Perimeter; a brother out to avenge his sister's murder; the son of a former Nazi who joins the Red Army Faction. Tracing moments of encounter, their paths cross those of Allen Ginsberg, Albert Cossery, John Coltrane, and Duke Ellington. Characters travel by train from Venice to Paris, hike up the Val d'Annivers, listen to jazz in Greenwich Village, and ride a motorcycle along the sandy road to Haifa. Under the shadow of war, with death lurking, these multifaceted, evocative lives move in a space between coincidence and fate.
Sharp as a razor and as subtle as gossamer, Shmuel T. Meyer's masterfully crafted stories evoke unique individual sensibilities and destinies, resonating with the sensual details, smells, tastes, music, and sounds of a specific time and place. And the War Is Over brings together three collections of short stories set on three continents in the aftermath of war: World War II and the Shoah in Grand European Express, the Korean War in The Great American Disaster, and the Arab-Israeli conflict in Kibbutz.
Characters both real and imagined run through a fabric so tightly woven that the threads of history and fiction can barely be separated: the Roman poet Clara who will never write again; Saul, a New York City police detective haunted by memories of the Pusan Perimeter; a brother out to avenge his sister's murder; the son of a former Nazi who joins the Red Army Faction. Tracing moments of encounter, their paths cross those of Allen Ginsberg, Albert Cossery, John Coltrane, and Duke Ellington. Characters travel by train from Venice to Paris, hike up the Val d'Annivers, listen to jazz in Greenwich Village, and ride a motorcycle along the sandy road to Haifa. Under the shadow of war, with death lurking, these multifaceted, evocative lives move in a space between coincidence and fate.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Greenford
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 201 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80309-340-6 (9781803093406)
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Persons
Shmuel T. Meyer was born in Paris in 1957. After a nomadic life that took him to Switzerland, England, Italy, Israel, and Geneva, he settled permanently back in Paris. He is the author of two novels and five collections of stories. Gila Walker is the translator of more than a hundred works in French, including texts by Jacques Derrida, Francois Jullien, and Tzvetan Todorov. She divides her time between her homes in New York and the southwest of France.
Content
1.Grand European Express
2.The Great American Disaster
3.Kibbutz
2.The Great American Disaster
3.Kibbutz