A gay New York Times travel writer comes to Tel Aviv after suffering a tragedy. The energy of the city and his relationship with a younger man brings him back to life.

Today 4.7 million Americans have been unemployed for more than six months. In France more than ten percent of the working population is without work. In Israel it's above seven percent. And in Greece and Spain, that number approaches thirty percent. Across the developed world, the experience of unemployment has become frighteningly common - and so are the seemingly endless tactics that job seekers employ in their quest for new work. Job-Search Games delves beneath these staggering numbers to explore the world of job searching and unemployment across class and nation. Through in-depth interviews and observations at job-search support organizations, Ofer Sharone reveals how different labor-market institutions give rise to job-search games like Israel's resume-based "spec games" - which are focused on presenting one's skills to fit the job - and the "chemistry games" more common in the United States in which job seekers concentrate on presenting the person behind the resume. By closely examining the specific day-to-day activities and strategies of searching for a job, Sharone develops a theory of the mechanisms that connect objective social structures and subjective experiences in this challenging environment - and how these different structures can lead to very different experiences of unemployment.

当今以色列最富影响力的作家阿摩司·奥兹发表于2002年的自传体长篇小说《爱与黑暗的故事》一向被学界视为奥兹最优秀的作品，短短五年就被翻译成二十多种文字的译本。尤其是英国剑桥大学教授尼古拉斯·德朗士的英文译本在2004年面世后，这部作品更广泛地引起了东西方读者的兴趣，不仅促使奥兹一举夺得2005年“歌德文化奖”，又于2007年入围“ 国际布克奖”，最近还荣获了“阿斯图里亚斯王子奖”。这部近六百页的长篇小说把主要背景置于耶路撒冷，以娓娓动人的笔调向读者展示出百余年间一个犹太家族的历史与民族叙事，抑或说家族故事与民族历史。家庭与民族两条线索在《爱与黑暗的故事》中相互交织，既带你走进一个犹太家庭，了解其喜怒哀乐，又使你走近一个民族，窥见其得失荣辱。