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Life on Sandpaper
חיים על נייר זכוכית · Hayim al neyar zekhukhit
Yoram Kaniuk (יורם קניוק, born 1930)
Translated by Anthony Berris
English editions
In EnglishLife on Sandpaper
Dalkey Archive Press · United States · 2011 · Paperback · 417 pages
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Picking up after the trauma of the 1948 war, the author tells of the years that followed his recovery, when the young veteran went to America and above all to New York in the 1950s. In short, flowing sentences the book reads like the diary of an inner journey, full of desire and hunger for a different life, among the art, music and culture of the decade.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 364 pages in the original
- Genres
- Autofiction (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- United States, 1950s
- First published
- 2003 by Yedioth Ahronoth
- Author's age
- 73 when first published
- ISBN
9789655114195 (original)
9781564786135 (Dalkey Archive Press, United States)
- More
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