Tel Aviv Noir

Israeli crime fiction that "sets the bar high for subsequent  Noir offerings. The genre is hot, Tel Aviv is exotic, and this volume is outstanding" ( Library Journal, starred review). Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched with the summer '04 award-winning bestseller  Brooklyn Noir. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. For  Tel Aviv Noir, Etgar Keret and Assaf Gavron have masterfully assembled some of Israel's top contemporary writers into a compulsively readable collection.   Along with Gon Ben Ari's story "Clear Recent History"—winner of the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award for Best P.I. Short Story—this anthology includes brand-new stories by: Etgar Keret, Gadi Taub, Lavie Tidhar, Deakla Keydar, Matan Hermoni, Julia Fermentto, Shimon Adaf, Alex Epstein, Antonio Ungar, Gai Ad, Assaf Gavron, Silje Bekeng, and Yoav Katz; translated by Yardenne Greenspan.   Jewish Journal's Noteworthy Books for the New Year   "There's a marvelous underlying tension to [the stories], a paranoid tinge, as if some vast monstrous conspiracy is lurking behind every misdeed and bad stroke of luck." — San Francisco Book Review "The collection reflects much of the daily reality of the city, but not the sort one is likely to read in tour guides . . . There's a complexity and virtuosity to plot and prose that leaves the reader with a sense of satisfaction and appreciation, despite the typically devastating denouement of the tales . . . Superb." —PopMatters   "Consistently strong . . . Definitely one of the highlights in the long-running Akashic series." — Booklist, starred review