Who by Fire pdf

Matty Friedman worked as a reporter who took him from Lebanon to Morocco, Cairo, Moscow and Washington, DC, and to conflicts in Israel and the Caucasus. He was a reporter for the Associated Press, and his writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Tablet Magazine, and others. He grew up in Toronto and lives in Jerusalem. His first book, The Manuscript of Aleppo (Algonquin, 2012) won the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize and the Sophie Brody Medal from the ALA, among other awards. His second book, "Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story" (Algonquin, May 2016) has received outstanding reviews in Kirkus, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and the Library Journal, and has been compared by the New York Times to Tim O'Brien's masterpiece "The Things They Carry". ."

Who by Fire pdf by Matti Friedman

Who by Fire : War, Atonement, and the Resurrection of Leonard Cohen

Who by Fire is a stunning resurrection of a moment in the life of Leonard Cohen and the history of Israel. It's the story of a young artist in crisis and a young country at war, and the powerful resonance of the chord struck between them. A beautiful, haunting book full of feeling. --Nicole Krauss, author of To Be a Man
In October, 1973, the poet and singer Leonard Cohen - 39 years old, famous, unhappy, and at a creative dead end - traveled to the Sinai desert and inserted himself into the chaos and bloodshed of the Yom Kippur War. Moving around the front with a guitar and a pick-up team of local musicians, Cohen dived headlong into the midst of a global crisis and met hundreds of fighting men and women at the worst moment of their lives. His audiences heardp him knowing it might be the last thing they heard, and those who survived never forgot what they heard.
Cohen's war tour was an electric cultural moment, one that still echoes today, and one that inspired some of his greatest songs - but a moment that only few knew about, until now. In Who By Fire , Canadian-Israeli journalist Matti Friedman gives us a riveting account of what happened during those weeks in Israel in October, 1973. With access to amazing and never-before-seen material written by Cohen himself, along with dozens of interviews and rare photographs, Friedman revives this fraught and stunning time, presenting an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the artist, and of the young people who heard him sing in the midst of combat.
Who By Fire brings us close to one the greatest, most brilliant and charismatic voices of our times, and gives us a rare glimpse of war, faith, and belonging.