Talking to the Enemy (Story collection)

Seven Story Press, NYC, 2005
From Publishers Weekly

Mandelman, an Israeli living in Toronto, complicates the underside of Israeli culture, teasing out the roots of violence and prejudice in this alternately dark and humorous collection, which won the Jewish Book Award when first published in Canada….With these agile, vernacular stories, Mandelman takes a clear-sighted yet empathetic view of a fraught nation.

View Excerpt From Book

"Never before has [the Israeli-Palestinian conflict] been brought to life in such vivid and telling prose...

[Avner Mandelman] is Part Tim O’Brien and part Bernard Malamud.“

(Jewish Book Week.)

“Talking to the Enemy captures the psychological and emotional contradictions of everyday life like no other literary work in recent memory.”

(Tikkun magazine)

<<go back to publications