Israeli Journalist About His Country

 The Breaking Essays of an Israeli Journalist About His Country

In the United States, there is no journalist like Igal Sarna, an Israeli who served as a tank commander during the Yom Kippur War in 1973. In his superb essay collection The Man Who Fell Into a Puddle (Pantheon, 2002), Sarna writes:

With an intelligence and clarity that evokes both the high language of early Joan Didion and the scientific rigor of Atul Gawande, the surgeon and author of Complications and other works, Sarna exposes the hidden lives of common Israelis in The Man Who Fell Into A Puddle.

Each of its 14 essays — written by both men and women — examines an individual or group whose life has been torn apart by catastrophe.

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