{"product_id":"art-war-poetry-pulp-and-politics-in-israeli-fiction-9781910924044","title":"Art \u0026 War: Poetry, Pulp and Politics in Israeli Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Lavie Tidhar | Shimon Adaf\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Watkins Media\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Watkins Media\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Jewish\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShimon Adaf and Lavie Tidhar are two of Israel's most subversive and politically outspoken writers. Growing up on opposite sides of the Israeli spectrum - Tidhar in the north of Israel in the Zion-ist, socialist Kibbutz; Adaf from a family of religious Mizrahi Jews living in Sderot - the two nevertheless shared a love of books, and were especially drawn to the strange visions and outrageous sensibilities of the science fiction that was available in Hebrew. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eArt and War\u003c\/i\u003e, they engage in a dialogue that covers their approach to writing the fantastic, as they question how to write about Israel and Palestine, about Judaism, about the Holocaust, about childhoods and their end. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExtending the conversation even into their fiction, the book contains two brand new short stories - Tutim by Tidhar, and Third Attribute by Adaf - in which each appears as a character in the other's tale; simultaneously political and fantastical, they burn with an angry, despairing intensity.","brand":"Watkins Media","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47780522819735,"sku":"9781910924044","price":1352.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781910924044.webp?v=1778045903","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/art-war-poetry-pulp-and-politics-in-israeli-fiction-9781910924044","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}