Almost Dead

<p>[An] original and powerful writer.... His clear and honest writing blasts right through the clichés and the politically correct surface to touch the chaotic and ambiguous core of the Israeli identity. --Etgar Keret </p><p>In a dazzling display of empathy Gavron creates two equally compelling narrators the bomber and his victim. This is a virtuoso work; a pitch-perfect rendering of real Israeli life in all its chaos energy humor and terror. I couldn't put it down. -- Geraldine Brooks </p><p>Politically incorrect provocative and steeped in wit and irony <em>Almost Dead</em> is a fast-paced tragicomic novel about the perfectly ordinary madness in today's Middle East.</p>