{"id":723,"date":"2016-07-23T04:56:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T04:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=723"},"modified":"2016-07-23T04:56:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T04:56:00","slug":"books-to-look-for-art-and-war-by-lavie-tidhar-shimon-adaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=723","title":{"rendered":"Books to Look For: Art and War by Lavie Tidhar &#038; Shimon Adaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-724\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tidhar1-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"tidhar1\" width=\"150\" height=\"237\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/repeaterbooks.com\/books\/art-and-war-lavie-tidhar-and-shimon-adaf\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Art and War: Poetry, Pulp and Politics in Israeli Fiction<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Repeater Books<\/p>\n<p>April 21, 2016<\/p>\n<p>300 pages<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Shimon Adaf and Lavie Tidhar are two of Israel\u2019s most subversive and politically outspoken writers. Growing up on opposite sides of the Israeli spectrum \u2013 Tidhar in the north of Israel in the Zionist, socialist Kibbutz; Adaf from a family of religious Mizrahi Jews living in Sderot \u2013 the two nevertheless shared a love of books, and\u00a0were especially drawn to the strange visions and outrageous sensibilities of the science fiction that was available in Hebrew. Here, 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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Extending the conversation even into their fiction, the book contains two brand new short stories \u2013 \u201cTutim\u201d by Tidhar, and \u201cthird attribute\u201d by Adaf \u2013 in which each appears as a character in the other\u2019s tale; simultaneously political and fantastical, they burn with an angry, despairing intensity.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art and War: Poetry, Pulp and Politics in Israeli Fiction Repeater Books April 21, 2016 300 pages &nbsp; Shimon Adaf and Lavie Tidhar are two of Israel\u2019s most subversive and politically outspoken writers. Growing up on opposite sides of the Israeli spectrum \u2013 Tidhar in the north of Israel in the Zionist, socialist Kibbutz; Adaf<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=723\" class=\"more-link themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46],"tags":[122,123,125,124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}