Sie haben die Waren unverzüglich und in jedem Fall spätestens binnen vierzehn Tagen ab dem Tag, an dem Sie mich über den Widerruf dieses Vertrags unterrichten, an mich zurückzusenden oder zu übergeben. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Their own children are throwing away their things, but we collect them, fix them up, make them beautiful again.He was looking at the clipping of Aba, the last of the Alte Sachen to switch to a motorized vehicle.

Notwithstanding their great physical attributes, the melons were lousy being probably picked before ripe time. Adinah’s father explains why she cannot be friends with the girl: their families have been rivals since their ancestors were miniaturists in Spain. From a man who sells bottles of air to a young soldier in Lebanon, a child who climbs the cranes of Tel Aviv to a young woman in love with a Bedouin boy. In Walking Shiv’ah, a daughter takes her demanding, crippled mother in a home-made rickshaw on a difficult and dangerous seven-day trek to find out which of the family’s soldier sons has been killed in the war. Friendlander demonstrates, and beautifully so, that beyond political or social contexts, we all love and suffer the same.

It wasn’t just garbage, though, it was objects that had stopped working, old technology, outdated devices. Composite blog consisting of notes, reflections, weird jokes, trip reports and amusing stories from the death row; some personal, some told and some fabricated, I have to reckon!

Except, we were in Tsfat, the city of blue-domed synagogues and wandering Kabbalah Golems, wildfires, narrow cobblestoned alleyways and cheap, touristy baubles and trinkets, and Penguins, those black-and-white Hassidim wandering around with their tzitzit tassels and pe’ot curls bouncing, their dark fur hats on Shabbat. It is a giant tourist mill grinding continuously millions of travelers with the intent to squeeze some miserable last dollars from their flattened purses or souls, I don’t know. Living in a land that has been conquered, occupied, and battled over for thousands of years, Ahmed's livelihood depends on the immigrants and everything they throw away. We saw turtles with old necks, just like hers, their shells shining like shields, the quicksilver leap of saffron spotted tree-frogs, the bright plumage of eggshell-blue birds.The collection of short stories that complete this book are set in the Middle East and take you on a diverse and cultural journey. There is not a single weak story in the collection and if I were to rate them individually 8 out of 11 would get 5 stars. Alte Sachen is a collaboration between the video artist Itamar Inbar and the photographer Ayala Gazit. The stories are harsh yet beautiful, sad yet humorous, and simple, while portraying the complexity of each situation. Some of the stories are very moving, and in each one, Friedlander certainly evokes his setting and mood with some wonderful descriptive prose: “The stuff you could find, the secrets people’s objects revealed to you.

While plodding forward, with rapidly accelerating difficulty, my small suitcase was acquiring the mass and weight of a mountain. In The Man Who Sold Air In The Holy Land, estranged from his wife, jobless, Simcha holds onto those activities that entertain his young daughter on her weekly access visit, including their double-act of selling bottles of air to American tourists.Would it be possible to create simple characters and stories that weren't just accessible for novice learners but could still be enjoyed for what they were? The parents believed their child was the reincarnated spirit of some Frenchman who had died on the day their son was born. My favourites were the first five stories, in particular 'Alte Sachen' and the title story 'The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land'. Bat Sheva and Boaz walked in the back, wrapped around each other, stumbling around as if they were drunk. It was impossible, I explained, because Aba’s spirit would have had to travel to a body born on the exact same day he died, at the exact same time even.