{"product_id":"almost-dead","title":"Almost Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"[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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePolitically incorrect, provocative, and steeped in wit and irony, Almost Dead is a fast-paced tragicomic novel about the perfectly ordinary madness in today's Middle East.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold through the alternating perspectives of a bomber and his victim, this breathtaking novel asks a devastating question: what happens when two lives on a collision course finally crash?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDual POV: \u003c\/b\u003e Experience the unfolding tragedy from both sides: Eitan 'Croc, ' a cynical Israeli survivor, and Fahmi, the young Palestinian bomber locked in a coma, reliving the choices that led him to his fate.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDark Humor and Biting Irony: \u003c\/b\u003e Navigate a world of suicide bombings, time-management start-ups, and post-trauma therapy with a voice that finds wit in the darkest corners of the conflict.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Haunting Survival Story: \u003c\/b\u003e Follow Croc as he becomes an unwilling media sensation--the 'CrocAttack'--a man who keeps surviving, forcing him to confront the absurd lottery of life and death in modern Israel.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eUnflinching Social Commentary: \u003c\/b\u003e A provocative look at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that blasts through clichés to explore the chaos, energy, and terror of real life in the Middle East.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833315569869,"sku":"9780061984044","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_2f6c764c-434f-469a-8c70-1471cf9de385.jpg?v=1790817857","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/almost-dead","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}