EAN: 9781954118072

WHO BY FIRE - MATTI FRIEDMAN GEBUNDEN

An expedition into the troubled soul of one of the world's greatest songwriters.-Haaretz Not
only is a hidden side of Cohen revealed but so too a hidden side of Israel.-David Bezmozgis A
Vanity Fair best book of 2022 * Mosaic Magazine best book of 2022 The little-known story of
Leonard Cohen's concert tour to the front lines of the Yom Kippur War  including
never-before-seen selections from an unfinished manuscript by Cohen and rare photographs In
October 1973  the poet and singer Leonard Cohen-thirty-nine years old  famous  unhappy  and at
a creative dead end-traveled from his home on the Greek island of Hydra to the chaos and
bloodshed of the Sinai desert when Egypt attacked Israel on the Jewish high holiday of Yom
Kippur. Moving around the front with a guitar and a group of local musicians  Cohen met
hundreds of young soldiers  men and women at the worst moment of their lives. Those who
survived never forgot the experience. And the war transformed Cohen. He had announced that he
was abandoning his music career  but he instead returned to Hydra and to his family  had a
second child  and released one of the best albums of his career. In Who by Fire  journalist
Matti Friedman gives us a riveting account of those weeks in the Sinai  drawing on Cohen's
previously unpublished writing and original reporting to create a kaleidoscopic depiction of a
harrowing  formative moment for both a young country at war and a singer at a crossroads.

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