Tutto è iniziato da un diario e da alcune lettere di Leonard Cohen ritrovati in un archivio canadese. Il grande cantautore vi raccontava il periodo passato in Israele durante la Guerra del Kippur, nel...

“A book about young men transformed by war, written by a veteran whose dazzling literary gifts gripped my attention from the first page to the last.” —The Wall Street Journal “Friedman’s sober and striking...

Il 14 maggio 1948 la nave Euryalus lascia il porto di Haifa. A bordo c’è l’ultimo Alto Commissario britannico per la Palestina. È la fine del dominio coloniale inglese in Medio Oriente. Da questo momento...

It was just one remote hilltop in an unnamed war in the late 1990s, but it would send out ripples that are still felt today, foreshadowing the chaos of 21st-century conflicts in the Middle East. The hill,...

“Wondrous . . . Compelling . . . Piercing.” —The New York Times Book Review Award-winning writer Matti Friedman’s tale of Israel’s first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity,...

“A brilliant non-fiction thriller about an ancient copy of the Torah. Highly recommended.” —Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist Winner of the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature A thousand years...

Jusque-là ils avaient vécu comme les Arabes, malgré une religion différente. Même langue, mêmes habits, mêmes plats épicés et même café sept fois passé sur le feu. Pourtant, dans les années quarante,...