Evan Fallenberg Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)

“An unabashed tale that does not pull punches and looks at love’s underside…This breathless story should only be read in one sitting. It hits hard and never lets up. Terse, brusque, etched on one’s inner thigh with an old serrated knife.” —André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name This erotic tale of jealousy, obsession, and revenge is suffused with the rich flavors and intoxicating scents of Israel's Mediterranean coast. An unnamed narrator writes a letter to an old college friend, Adam, at whose place he has been crashing since his abrupt return to the States from Israel. Now that the narrator is moving on to a new location, he finally reveals the events that led him to Adam's door, set in motion by a chance encounter with Uzi, an older man with whom the narrator has just had an intense sexual relationship. From his first meeting with Uzi, the narrator is overwhelmed by an animal attraction that will lead him to derail his life, withdraw from friends and extend his stay in a small town north of Tel Aviv. As he becomes increasingly entangled in Uzi's life—and by extension the lives of Uzi's ex-wife and children—his passion turns sinister, ultimately threatening all around him. Written in a circuitous style reminiscent of Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley novels, The Parting Gift is a page-turner and a shrewd exploration of the roles men assume, or are forced to assume.

Awarded the 2009 Stonewall Prize for Fiction. Winner of the Publishing Triangle's 2008 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. Twenty years have passed since Joseph left his family and his religious Israeli community when he fell in love with a man, the brilliant rabbi Yoel Rosenzweig. Now, for his fiftieth birthday, Joseph is preparing to have his five sons and the daughter-in-law he has never met spend the Sabbath with him in his Tel Aviv penthouse. This will be the first time he and his sons will have all been together in nearly two decades.

Eine universelle Geschichte von Angst und Überleben, ein Schlüsselroman zum Nahostkonflikt «Am Morgen, die ersten Sonnenstrahlen vor der Kulisse der libanesischen Landschaft, die sich wie ein unendlicher grüner Ozean vor uns ausbreitete, gab unser Kommandeur eine Ouvertüre zum Besten, die er bestimmt wochen-, vielleicht sogar monatelang auswendig gelernt hatte; vielleicht hatte er sie auch einfach von seinen Vorgängern geerbt: » «Ein faszinierendes Werk.» / Haaretz / «Lebendig und packend, gesättigt mit Liebe und Mitgefühl und - paradoxerweise, angesichts der Gräuel, die eine ganze Generation prägten - zugleich von einer berührenden Schönheit.»