"Alte Sachen": From The Life Of An Arab Scrap Dealer In Israel - a Middle East Short Story

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In Bucharest, at midnight, the driver didn’t come out of the car while I was trying under heavy rain to open the trunk. Love, friendship, death and betrayal are some of the many human experiences that are touched on in these stories.

Friendlander notes in the book’s acknowledgements that he "wanted to unearth the hidden stories of individuals beneath the fossilized official narrative" — this is exactly what the book achieved for me, and what makes it so memorable.

Bat Sheva and Boaz walked in the back, wrapped around each other, stumbling around as if they were drunk.

Sie haben das Recht, sich bei der zuständigen Aufsichtsbehörde für Datenschutz zu beschweren, wenn Sie der Meinung sind, dass die Verarbeitung Ihrer personenbezogenen Daten nicht rechtmäßig erfolgt. There is not a single weak story in the collection and if I were to rate them individually 8 out of 11 would get 5 stars. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The stories I would describe as the ‘classic’ short story format, with a bigger philosophical meaning and no clear ending, are the works that didn’t work quite as well for me; that style is just not my personal preference.In The Sephardi Survivor, two schoolboys bring home a confused old man from the Superzol, planning to use him as their Shoah Survivor on Shoah Memorial Day. Beds, closets, desks, chairs, fridges, gas stoves, sewing machines, sofas, carpets, Alte-Sachen, Alte-Sachen!