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Tales from the Jaffa Gate (2000)
EN PB USISBN: 9780966601749 bzw. 0966601742, in Englisch, 155 Seiten, Arden International Corp. Taschenbuch, gebraucht.
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, mldbooks63.
Short, pithy stories in the tradition of Graham Greene and Somerset Maugham. From his favorite seat on the low wall just inside the Jaffa Gate of Jerusalem's Old City, the unnamed teller of these tales casts a bemused eye on the ever-shifting tide of tourists, adventurers, scholars, mystics and crooks who throng the Citadel and ancient alleys of the Holy City, and shares with us a half-dozen or so of the stories that come his way. His own background is none too clear. He's a traveler certainly, with a hint of some shady business in his own past -- he certainly has no illusions about other men's motives and honesty -- and perhaps a journalist of sorts. Above all, he's a good listener. The folk who seek his ear are a motley lot of rogues and innocents -- among them a Jesuit scholar who may (or may not) have stumbled on a major and extremely awkward-not to say dangerous -- archaeological find, an Arab waiter and con artist whose flaming red hair was "a present to his mother from a departing British soldier," and a down-and-out pilot lately employed in a most curious capacity by a fabulously wealthy (and fabulously paranoid) oil sheik. Our narrator makes no judgments, but lets his people tell their stories. "Don't be too quick to condemn him," he says of one such reprobate. "Fraud, deception and delusion are a way of life here, and he is a product of his environment.", Paperback, Label: Arden International Corp. Arden International Corp. Product group: Book, Published: 2000-09-04, Studio: Arden International Corp. Sales rank: 11937300.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, mldbooks63.
Short, pithy stories in the tradition of Graham Greene and Somerset Maugham. From his favorite seat on the low wall just inside the Jaffa Gate of Jerusalem's Old City, the unnamed teller of these tales casts a bemused eye on the ever-shifting tide of tourists, adventurers, scholars, mystics and crooks who throng the Citadel and ancient alleys of the Holy City, and shares with us a half-dozen or so of the stories that come his way. His own background is none too clear. He's a traveler certainly, with a hint of some shady business in his own past -- he certainly has no illusions about other men's motives and honesty -- and perhaps a journalist of sorts. Above all, he's a good listener. The folk who seek his ear are a motley lot of rogues and innocents -- among them a Jesuit scholar who may (or may not) have stumbled on a major and extremely awkward-not to say dangerous -- archaeological find, an Arab waiter and con artist whose flaming red hair was "a present to his mother from a departing British soldier," and a down-and-out pilot lately employed in a most curious capacity by a fabulously wealthy (and fabulously paranoid) oil sheik. Our narrator makes no judgments, but lets his people tell their stories. "Don't be too quick to condemn him," he says of one such reprobate. "Fraud, deception and delusion are a way of life here, and he is a product of his environment.", Paperback, Label: Arden International Corp. Arden International Corp. Product group: Book, Published: 2000-09-04, Studio: Arden International Corp. Sales rank: 11937300.
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