Arafat's Elephant

Set in and around Jerusalem, now, in the past, and in the future, this remarkable collection introduces readers to a wide range of complex characters that, while deceptively simple and hauntingly beautiful, form a rich and complex portrait of a conflicted land and the glorious variety of its inhabitants.

Jonathan Tel is the author of Scratching the Head of Chairman Mao, The Beijing of Possibilities, Freud's Alphabet, and Arafat's Elephant Stories. He won the 2015 Commonwealth 2015 Short Story Prize for his story "The Human Phonograph."

A Story About A Bomb

1

(17)

Ibrahim Kuttab Is Innocent

17

(10)

Beautiful, Strong, And Modest

27

(16)

I May Be A Ghost But I'm Not A Slut

43

(12)

Alte Zakhen

55

(8)

The Moving Business

63

(10)

Hatikvah

73

(14)

Mr. Fig And Mr. Pineapple

87

(10)

Love And Coffee

97

(12)

The Chair At The Edge Of The Desert

109

(12)

Shabah

121

(8)

The Camel-Hair Coat

129

(10)

Spleen; Or, The Goy's Tale

139

(10)

Did Moshe Dayan Have A Glass Eye?

149

(6)

Shaking Hands With Theodor Herzl

155

(8)

A Tooth For A Tooth

163

(16)

Arafat's Elephant

179

(10)

Acknowledgments

189

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