Khirbet Khizeh

Author: Yizhar, S

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 3 February 2011 by GRANTA BOOKS in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 128 pages
174 x 126 x 12 | 134g

'Luminous' Ian McEwan'Astonishing' Economist'Mesmerising and prophetic' Arifa Akbar, IndependentIt's 1948 and the villagers of Khirbet Khizeh are about to be violently expelled from their homes. A young Israeli soldier who is on duty that day finds himself battling on two fronts: with the villagers and, ultimately, with his own conscience.

Haunting and heartbreaking, Khirbet Khizeh, now considered a modern Hebrew masterpiece, offers a wrenchingly honest view of one of Israel's defining moments.

'So incendiary and eloquent that one has to put it down every few pages... How often can you say of a harrowing, unquiet book that it makes you wrestle with your soul?' The Times