Sand Devil - Softcover

Bornstein, Michael

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ISBN 10: 1902881370 ISBN 13: 9781902881379

Publisher: Toby Pr, 2001

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Three novellas set in the Negev Desert. Startling and original, Bornstein possesses a powerful, sometimes magical, voice.

The heat of the Desert is captured in this collection of three novellas. An escaped murderer holds a young woman hostage in HOUSE OF BONDAGE. In THE MAESTRO OF YERUCHAM, a Russian violinist who has survived the Nazis and the Soviet regimes finds a young girl he believes to be the heir to his talents. And in SAND DEVIL, the adolescent son of a fundamentalist family discovers the terrifying secrets of the desert

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About the Author:

MICHAEL BORNSTEIN lives in Jerusalem with his wife and three children. He served as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces, and as advisor to the Israel delegation to the UN and to the government of the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. An historian with degrees from Princeton and Columbia, he has written extensively on the Middle East. He is also the author of several works of fiction and screenplays.

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"...the desert is an unremitting presence, imprisoning the main characters, but also providing a means for their redemption." -- The Jerusalem Post

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