West Jerusalem Noir

In West Jerusalem Noir—published simultaneously with East Jerusalem Noir—the Akashic Noir Series visits one of the world's most complex locales, in this volume from the perspective of Israeli writers

From the editor's introduction:
could not have taken place anywhere else. They reflect national, religious, and socioeconomic tensions inherent to the city and sketch an image of a concrete, contemporary, and complicated Jerusalem."

Featuring brand-new stories by: Yiftach Ashkenazi, Ilana Bernstein, Emanuel Yitzhak Levi and Guli Dolev-Hashiloni, Liat Elkayam, Asaf Schurr, Yardenne Greenspan, Ilai Rowner, Zohar Elmakias, Ilan Rubin Fields, Nano Shabtai, Yaara Shehori, Tafat Hacohen-Bick, Nadav Lapid, Tehila Hakimi, and Oded Wolkstein.

West Jerusalem Noir is being published simultaneously with East Jerusalem Noir, edited by Rawya Jarjoura Burbara. The companion volume explores the city with brand-new stories by Palestinian authors.

Noir fiction can be defined as crime fiction with dark themes, often featuring 'a disturbing mixture of sex and violence.' The stories of West Jerusalem Noir are somewhat tamer; their protagonists are confronted with the dark complexities of living in a city filled with national, religious, and socioeconomic tension. West Jerusalem Noir of the Akashic Noir Series is published simultaneously with East Jerusalem Noir, a companion collection that tells of the unfulfilled hopes and dreams of Jerusalem's Arab residents, their lives vastly different from those living in the western half of the city.-- "Times of Israel"
These two var-ied col-lec-tions of sto-ries, pub-lished simul-ta-ne-ous-ly, are set in a kalei-do-scop-ic Jerusalem that is impos-si-ble to describe with a sin-gle voice. Both vol-umes attempt to ren-der one of the world's old-est, blood-i-est, holi-est, and most divid-ed cities . . . The sto-ries in West Jerusalem Noir vary wide-ly in scope . . . unlike the East edi-tion, some of the sto-ries in West use Israel's cap-i-tal and the region's strife as a back-drop rather than a fore-ground . . . It might be said that any sto-ry set in a city so steeped in vio-lent his-to-ry, so scrawled with reli-gious myth, and so flood-lit by divi-sive order is a sto-ry about search-ing, about dark-ness, and about moral qualms?--?is, in oth-er words, a noir.-- "Jewish Book Council"

Maayan Eitan's short fiction and essays have been published in the Kenyon Review, World Literature Today, and the Tel Aviv Review of Books; her work also appears regularly in Israeli literary magazines. She holds a master's degree in comparative literature from the University of Michigan and is currently pursuing a PhD in Hebrew literature in Israel. Love, her debut novel, was published in Israel in 2020; the English translation was published in the US in 2022 by Penguin Press.

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