FICTION
239 Pages, 5.5 x 8.5
Formats: Cloth, EPUB, Mobipocket, PDF
Cloth, $19.95 (US $19.95) (CA $19.95)
Publication Date: June 2015
ISBN 9780983868538
Rights: WOR
Penlight Publications (Jun 2015)
eBook Editions Available
Will it work on my eReader?Available for the first time in English, this award-winning, bestselling Israeli novel follows the adventures and travails of Cyrus, a contemplative dog unusually fascinated with human affairs. Born into a German-Jewish household in the mid-1930s, Cyrus witnesses firsthand the rise of Nazism and the Holocaust. When events separate him from his Jewish owners, he is adopted by a Nazi family and employed by the SS. Filtering the darkest and most dramatic period of modern Jewish history through the naïve, yet often sage, perspective of a particular dog, The Jewish Dog offers readers a view of the Holocaust as never seen before. Deeply ironic and even humorous, the novel offers scathing political commentary on humanity and degradation, as Cyrus’s philosophical musings explore the value of loyalty, questions of identity, and above all, the fine line that separates humanity from animals.
Asher Kravitz is a wildlife photographer, a pilot, a former detective with the Israeli police force, and a lecturer on mathematics and physics at the Open University and the Jerusalem College of Engineering. He is the author of the novels Boomerang, Magic Square, and Mustafa Rabinowitz. Michal Kessler is a translator of Hebrew literature.