Description: ?The stories in Lunar Savings Time slip through time and between dreams and waking, between native tongue and elusive translation, long-dead writers and just-opened books. Alex Epstein has created a masterwork in the finest strokesstories in which humor, stubborn memory, and strange beauty meet and part ways in less than a page. Through these pages journey a woman who travels back in time to visit a psychoanalyst; Kafka, had he lived and emigrated to Israel after the Holocaust; the wandering Cain; Zen masters, beggars, writers, ghosts. In Epsteins lyrical philosophy, every imaginative proposition must answer to the burden of history. He can be placed next to Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Kafka, Borges, Haaretz has said of Epstein; Lunar Savings Time is his most radical collection yet, a wondrous achievement.
Brief description: Alex Epstein is the author of three short-story collections and three novels; in 2003 he received Israel's Prime Minister's Prize for Literature. He teaches in Tel Aviv.
Review Quotes: The short texts of Alex Epstein virtuously echo the great tradition of world literature in a truly original manner, as the tension between the classical and the intuitively improvised creates in the reader's mind the literary equivalent of a cross between Mozart and Miles Davis.--Etgar Keret