שכול וכשלון וזומבים

A literary mash-up, the novel rewrites a classic of Hebrew literature in another genre. In this version of 1921, the violence in Jaffa is an onslaught of the living dead. Cut off from the world, the writer Yosef Haim Brenner and a handful of companions hold out in a farmhouse surrounded by killer corpses, perhaps the last people alive in the country. Brenner goes on writing, crossing out and correcting as the days pass. His pages record their struggle to stay alive and doomed rescue missions, but also stranger things: a British officer who falls from a burning plane, three roving beekeepers who appear out of the wilderness, and a little girl, Rina Shatz, who has gone mad for buttons.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

269 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Israel, 1921

First published

2025 by Am Oved

Author's age

44 when first published

ISBN

9789655800982 (original)

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