FALLENBERG, Evan << back to list Evan Fallenberg is a US-born writer and translator living in Israel since 1985. He is the author of the novel Light Fell (Soho Press) and has translated novels, plays, short stories, librettos and screenplays by Meir Shalev, Ron Leshem, Alon Hilu, Batya Gur, Yair Lapid, Natan Zack, Savyon Liebrecht, Gilad Evron, Lior Navok and others. (photo © Vardi Kahana) Web site http://www.evanfallenberg.com Bibliography & Foreign sales LIGHT FELL A Great Debut of 2008 Rocky Mountain News ”Fallenberg allows each character to raise the novel’s emotional stakes with remarkable deftness…Raises brave questions about the nature of family and betrayal, rupture and healing.” San Francisco Chronicle ”A stirring exploration of obsession, spirituality and the healing power of time…Light Fell is an astonishingly accomplished first novel, wisely attuned to life’s infinitely strange turns.” Miami Herald ”Light Fell resounds with vibrant prose and lush imagery and handles its controversial subject matter with elegance, honesty and grace.” Jerusalem Post ”Light Fell is full of substantive light. Light that is sometimes bent or deflected by the gravity of law and tradition, a difficult luminosity that in Fallenberg’s deft hands remains metaphorically complex…In his moving and often subtle novel, Fallenberg is expert at providing living portraits of numerous characters both central and peripheral to Joseph’s life.” The Forward ”Fallenberg’s prose is spare but lyrical, and his handling of the narrative elements elevates the book beyond the cliches of love stories or even coming-out stories. The interplay of desire, duty and identity is compellingly complex…and brings to mind Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. In Light Fell, as in Mrs. Dalloway, the past is more than background to the present; it is an active force in the present.” Cleveland Jewish News ”Light Fell belongs in the category of great literature. Jewish Tribune of Canada Awards 2009 Barbara Gittings Stonewall Award for Literature from the American Library Association 2009 National Jewish Book Award (finalist) 2008 PEN Translation Prize (finalist) for Meir Shalev’s A Pigeon and a Boy 2002 MacDowell Colony fellow