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Type
Novel
Unit Type
oz
Release Year
2003
ISBN
9780872864191
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
City Lights
ISBN-10
0872864197
ISBN-13
9780872864191
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2324794

Product Key Features

Book Title
Picnic Grounds : a Novel in Fragments
Number of Pages
112 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Cultural Heritage, General, Literary, Jewish
Publication Year
2003
Genre
Fiction
Author
Oz Shelach
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
3.9 Oz
Item Length
7 in
Item Width
4.5 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-041270
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
Taking responsibility for the destruction of Palestine is a pill still far too bitter for most Israelis to swallow. Stepping outside of home and Hebrew, Oz Shelach takes us on an eerie journey through the archaeology of complicity and denial. Deeply personal, Picnic Grounds is also a profoundly political document that forces us to confront, as James Baldwin put it, 'the price of the ticket,' the heavy debt a state can exact from its people., A spare and perfectly painful little book, Oz Shelach's Picnic Grounds sketches an Israel that you won't see on the news.... With ruthless precision, Shelach's novel plots the terrain of complicity, denial, and shared, unspoken culpability that Israel has crafted for itself over the last half-century., "A spare and perfectly painful little book, Oz Shelach's Picnic Grounds sketches an Israel that you won't see on the news. . . . With ruthless precision, Shelach's novel plots the terrain of complicity, denial, and shared, unspoken culpability that Israel has crafted for itself over the last half-century."--The Village Voice "The Israeli writer Oz Shelach . . . critiqu[es] Middle East politics through the creative fuzz of metaphor and suggestion . . . in his novel Picnic Grounds (City Lights Books). In one of the book's many narrative fragments, Shelach tells the story of a Haifa botanist who gets banned from a Botanical Society meeting in Tel-Aviv because he finds [in] Israel anemones in which 'long strips of white, blue, and purple anemones ran through the thick of the red ones, like veins.' Every place and every person in Picnic Grounds are like these anemones--self-possessed entities interlaced with otherness, running on the blood from someone else's veins."--Josh Kun, San Francisco Bay Guardian "Had Ernest Hemingway succeeded in writing the novel suggested by the vignettes that punctuate In Our Time, the result might have resembled Oz Shelach's Picnic Grounds: A Novel in Fragments. . . . The novel, Shelach's first, is set in an Israel at once familiar, yet utterly alien. . . . "--Forward Magazine "Shelach's prose has an elegant precision borne of his journalistic activities. . . . [his] ironic understatement provides an eloquent indictment of the ongoing situation in Palestine."--San Francisco Bay Guardian "Picnic Grounds is a forceful debut whose fragmentary form lends it the feel of a scrapbook--Kodak moments from a society with its guard down and its righteousness momentarily disabled."--Philip Herter, St. Petersburg Times "Oz Shelach has managed, by pinpointing minutes, to evoke hours, days, years, a whole history. The very pauses in his extraordinary novel are filled with more width of understanding, more depth of compassion than would be possible in a book many times its length."--David Plante "Taking responsibility for the destruction of Palestine is a pill still far too bitter for most Israelis to swallow. Stepping outside of home and Hebrew, Oz Shelach takes us on an eerie journey through the archaeology of complicity and denial. Deeply personal, Picnic Grounds is also a profoundly political document that forces us to confront, as James Baldwin put it, 'the price of the ticket,' the heavy debt a state can exact from its people."--Ammiel Alcalay "There's something so captivating about these 'fragments,' about their beguiling simplicity, about the things they so eloquently withhold, something so pure and unpretentiously fresh. Oz Shelach, in the first person plural, is probably the most relentlessly restrained cartographer of the current Israeli scene, and this novel is the most intricately subtle commentary on that unsettled scene that I've read in years. A stunning literary achievement."--Anton Shammas, Had Ernest Hemingway succeeded in writing the novel suggested by the vignettes that punctuate In Our Time, the result might have resembled Oz Shelach's Picnic Grounds: A Novel in Fragments. . . . The novel, Shelach's first, is set in an Israel at once familiar, yet utterly alien...., Picnic Grounds is a forceful debut whose fragmentary form lends it the feel of a scrapbook - Kodak moments from a society with its guard down and its righteousness momentarily disabled., Oz Shelach has managed, by pinpointing minutes, to evoke hours, days, years, a whole history. The very pauses in his extraordinary novel are filled with more width of understanding, more depth of compassion than would be possible in a book many times its length., "The Israeli writer Oz Shelach... critiqu[es] Middle East politics through the creative fuzz of metaphor and suggestion... in his novel Picnic Grounds (City Lights Books). In one of the book's many narrative fragments, Shelach tells the story of a Haifa botanist who gets banned from a Botanical Society meeting in Tel-Aviv because he finds [in] Israel anemones in which "long strips of white, blue, and purple anemones ran through the thick of the red ones, like veins." Every place and every person in Picnic Grounds are like these anemones-- self-possessed entities interlaced with otherness, running on the blood from someone else's veins.", Shelach's prose has an elegant precision borne of his journalistic activities.... [his] ironic understatement provides an eloquent indictment of the ongoing situation in Palestine., Shelach is a wonderful writer. There is no doubt that, from his very first book, he has a great future ahead him. This book should be read slowly in small sips, not gulped down, like a very bitter drink (not an intoxicating one)... a whole and complete world and without a personal, confident voice, brilliant in the way that a definite artist is a genius..., There's something so captivating about these 'fragments,' about their beguiling simplicity, about the things they so eloquently withhold, something so pure and unpretentiously fresh. Oz Shelach, in the first person plural, is probably the most relentlessly restrained cartographer of the current Israeli scene, and this novel is the most intricately subtle commentary on that unsettled scene that I've read in years. A stunning literary achievement.
Dewey Decimal
823/.92
Synopsis
Part reportage, part parable, part excavation of history, this jigsaw puzzle of compelling tales constitutes an exile's nostalgic tour into Israel's culture of denial. Captivating in its beguiling, seeming simplicity, Picnic Grounds is a novel built from the layers of overlapping lives and stories, much like the villages and cities of Israel are constructed from a culture superimposed over the palimpsest of history. Landscape, language and the manufacture of knowledge are deconstructed by a unique new voice, writing in a language that is not quite English, from a life that is anything but post-colonial. Oz Shelach was born in West Jerusalem in 1968 and has been a journalist and editor for Israeli radio and magazines. He currently lives in New York., Part reportage, part parable, part excavation of history, this jigsaw puzzle of compelling tales constitutes an exile's nostalgic tour into Israel's culture of denial. Captivating in its beguiling, seeming simplicity, Picnic Grounds is a novel built from the layers of overlapping lives and stories, much like the villages and cities of Israel are constructed from a culture superimposed over the palimpsest of history. Landscape, language, and the manufacture of knowledge are deconstructed by a unique new voice, writing in a language that is not quite English, from a life that is anything but post-colonial. Oz Shelach was born in West Jerusalem in 1968 and has been a journalist and editor for Israeli radio and magazines. He currently lives in New York., Spare and haunting, whimsical and contemplative snapshot-stories that reveal an unfamiliar Israel by remapping its blind spots.
LC Classification Number
PR9510.9.S53P5 2003

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