{"product_id":"take-up-and-read-9780374277970","title":"Take Up and Read","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn Shimon Adaf's Lost Detective Trilogy, what begins as conventional mystery becomes by degrees a brilliant deconstruction not just of genre but of our own search for meaning. Both profound and compulsively readable, these books demand to be devoured. --Lavie Tidhar, author of \u003ci\u003eBy Force Alone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the summer of 2014, at the height of the Gaza-Israel conflict, Elish Ben-Zaken met the poet and librarian Nahum Farkash in the border town of Sderot. They spoke only briefly, but in that brief encounter, Elish might have missed the key to unraveling the case of a Sderot woman who disappeared for two days, only to reappear with no memory of her time away. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTake Up and Read\u003c\/i\u003e, Shimon Adaf returns to Farkash's story. Attempting to defend the legacy of the singer Dalia Shoshan--whose murder Elish investigated several years before--Farkash tries to impede the production of a new documentary about her life. Meanwhile, he reminisces about his past, reflecting on his experiences as a young religious boy growing up in Sderot. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFourteen years later, in a militant Israel that has been distorted by catastrophic war, Elish's niece and nephew are haunted by their uncle's death and the failure of his 2014 investigation. As Tahel and Oshri conduct experiments in search of the truth, they draw near to the heart of a great conspiracy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this masterful conclusion to the Lost Detective Trilogy, Shimon Adaf brings together futuristic biotechnology, parallel universes, and Jewish mysticism. \u003ci\u003eTake Up and Read\u003c\/i\u003e addresses a central concern of the trilogy, interrogating humankind's tenuous grasp on the boundaries of our selves, and the arbitrary connections between the body, consciousness, and perception.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/02\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374277970\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 688","brand":"Shimon Adaf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42183774863541,"sku":"9780374277970","price":17.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_c73ca3b0-111c-4862-b3e9-c44fcb168d08.jpg?v=1654570769","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/take-up-and-read-9780374277970","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}