{"title":"Shimon Adaf","description":"\u003cp\u003eShimon Adaf's works offer a richly poetic exploration of human experience, blending poetic sensibility with vivid narrative imagination. His novels invite readers into introspective journeys framed by nuanced characters and evocative settings, where the ordinary and the surreal intertwine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the contemplative moods of \u003cem\u003eOne Mile and Two Days Before Sunset\u003c\/em\u003e to the compelling intrigue of \u003cem\u003eA Detective's Complaint\u003c\/em\u003e, Adaf's fiction challenges conventions and invites reflection on identity, memory, and the passage of time. His writing is a thoughtful addition to modern general fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-detectives-complaint-by-shimon-adaf-9780374139650","title":"A Detective's Complaint","description":"These days, Elish Ben Zaken has traded working as a private investigator for writing detective novels based on unsolved cases from the past. He appears to live an ordinary writer's life: meeting with his agent, attending literary conferences. But all is not quite right with Elish, who cannot escape his past so easily, especially when his sister's daughter, Tahel, a teenager and aspiring sleuth herself, calls on him for help. Tahel has uncovered a mystery: a young woman boarded a bus in Beersheva on a Thursday evening and stepped off in Sderot, close to the Gaza border, on Sunday evening. A bus ride that should have lasted an hour instead took three days, and the young woman remembers none of it.\n\nTo assist Tahel-and, he tells himself, to conduct research for his next novel-Elish moves back to Sderot, where he grew up. His sister, Yaffa, has moved her family from Tel Aviv to a new lakeside development there; the property came cheap, despite the attractive setting, and there are murmurs that the developer fled the country before it was completed. Some of the houses still stand empty, and Tahel keeps waking up at night to find her mother staring out at the lake, convinced she is being watched. \n\nNow, in the summer of 2014, Sderot lies near the center of the Gaza-Israel conflict, and sirens and missile strikes are part of the town's daily reality-as are violent clashes between anti-war protestors and those who oppose them. In this pressurized environment, Elish must grapple with the deep wounds of history, both personal and political, and the human need for answers in a world that offers few.","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48240558997740,"sku":"9780374139650","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780374139650-a-detective-s-complaint-1.jpg?v=1787919061"},{"product_id":"one-mile-and-two-days-before-sunset-by-shimon-adaf-9780374227036","title":"One Mile and Two Days Before Sunset","description":"At age thirty, Elish Ben Zaken has found himself in a life he never imagined. As a university student, Elish was an esteemed rock-music critic for local newspapers; now, disenchanted with an increasingly commercialized music scene, he has joined a private investigation agency where he is content to be a \"clerk of small human sins\"-a finder of stolen cars and wayward husbands. But when a disconcertingly amiable detective asks him to look into the suicide of an infamous philosophy professor-and the police file contains unexpected information about the already-solved murder of Dalia Shushan, a celebrated singer and songwriter-Elish's natural curiosity is piqued. And when violence begins to dog the steps of his investigation, he knows that dangerous secrets are at hand. Haunted by the ghost of Dalia, a true artist with a transformative voice whose dark brilliance Elish was one of the first to recognize, he must face the long-buried trauma of his own past in order to unravel the intertwining threads of two lives, and their ends.\n\nIn Elish, Shimon Adaf has created an unforgettable protagonist. A former philosophy student with a questing mind, born to Moroccan parents and raised in an outlying town, he is an eternal outsider in cosmopolitan Tel Aviv. Equally, One Mile and Two Days Before Sunset is a detective novel unlike any other: an incisive portrait of a man and a city, and a meditation on disappointment, on striving for beauty and for intensity of experience, and on the futile desire to truly know another person.","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48243471646956,"sku":"9780374227036","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780374227036-one-mile-and-two-days-before-sunset-1.jpg?v=1787985722"},{"product_id":"take-up-and-read-by-shimon-adaf-9780374277970","title":"Take Up and Read","description":"In the summer of 2014, at the height of the Gaza-Israel conflict, Elish Ben-Zaken met the poet and librarian Nahum Farkash in the border town of Sderot. The two men spoke only briefly, but in that brief encounter, Elish might have missed the key to unraveling the case of a Sderot woman who disappeared for three days, only to reappear with no memory of her time away. \n\nIn Take Up and Read, Shimon Adaf returns to Farkash's story. Attempting to defend the legacy of the singer Dalia Shushan-whose murder Elish investigated several years before-Farkash tries to impede the production of a new documentary about her life. Meanwhile, he reminisces about his past, reflecting on his experiences as a young religious boy growing up in Sderot.\n\nFourteen years later, in a militant Israel that has been distorted by catastrophic war, Elish's niece and nephew are haunted by their uncle's death and the failure of his 2014 investigation. As Tahel and Oshri conduct experiments in search of the truth, they draw near to the heart of a great conspiracy. \n\nIn this masterful conclusion to the Elish Ben-Zaken trilogy, Shimon Adaf brings together futuristic biotechnology, parallel universes, and Jewish mysticism, and the extent of his renovation of the detective novel comes finally and fully into view. Take Up and Read addresses a central concern of the trilogy, interrogating humankind's tenuous grasp on the boundaries of our selves, and the arbitrary connections between the body, consciousness, and perception.","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48244440629484,"sku":"9780374277970","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780374277970-take-up-and-read-1.jpg?v=1787996266"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/shimon-adaf.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}