Barbara Harshav
Barbara Harshav has been translating works from French, German, Hebrew and Yiddish for over twenty years and has currently published over forty books of translation including works of poetry, drama, fiction, philosophy, economics, sociology, and history.
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by Yoram Kaniuk
Translated from the Hebrew by Barbara Harshav
Finalist for the 2017 PEN Translation Prize
The final literary testament of “one of Israel’s greatest and least celebrated writers” (Nicole Krauss), Between Life and Death is a startlingly brave, funny, poetic, and moving autobiographical novel about the four months Yoram Kaniuk spent in a coma near the end of his life.
Hardcover • ISBN: 9781632060921
Publication date: Sep 13, 2016