{"product_id":"9781910924044","title":"Art and War: Poetry, Pulp and Politics in Israeli Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eShimon Adaf and Lavie Tidhar are two of Israel’s most subversive and politically outspoken writers.  Growing up on opposite sides of the Israeli  spectrum – Tidhar in the north of Israel in the Zion-ist, socialist Kibbutz; Adaf from a family of religious Mizrahi Jews living in Sderot – the two nevertheless shared a love of books, and were especially drawn to the strange visions and outrageous sensibilities of the science fiction that was available in Hebrew. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eArt and War\u003c\/i\u003e, they engage in a dialogue that covers their approach to writing the fantastic, as they question how to write about Israel and Palestine, about Judaism, about the Holocaust, about childhoods and their end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExtending the conversation even into their fiction, the book contains two brand new short stories – Tutim by Tidhar, and Third Attribute by Adaf – in which each appears as a character in the other’s tale; simultaneously political and fantastical, they burn with an angry, despairing intensity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Watkins Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50096713662704,"sku":"9781910924044","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781910924044","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}