Ashes and Other Stories

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Paperback
2004
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Naomi Shepherd is a prize-winning historian and biographer; here she turns her hand to fiction, revealing a razor-sharp eye, a finely attuned ear, and a keen sense of cultural dissonance. In each of these thirteen stories we see a different facet of a fast-changing country where the clash of cultures and of expectations creates situations rich in humour, poignancy, disappointment, and tragedy.

Synopsis

Naomi Shepherd is a prize-winning historian and biographer; here she turns her hand to fiction, revealing a razor-sharp eye, a finely attuned ear, and a keen sense of cultural dissonance. In each of these thirteen stories we see a different facet of a fast-changing country where the clash of cultures and of expectations creates situations rich in humour, poignancy, disappointment, and tragedy.

$10.94

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Halban Publishers
Published: 11 Mar 2004
ISBN 10: 1870015835
ISBN 13: 9781870015837
Book Overview: The short stories in Naomi Shepherd's collection ASHES are a delight... an anatomy of Israeli society, a species of social tragi-comedy. (Alan Isler)

Author Bio

Born in Cardiff and educated at Oxford, Naomi Shepherd has spent most of her adult life in Israel, where she was for many years a contributor to The New Statesman, a documentary maker, as well as a historian and biographer