At Nights End Nir Baram Jessica Cohen Translation by Nir Baram, Jessica Cohen (translation) instant download after payment.

A writer wakes up in a hotel room in an unfamiliar city. His clothes are muddy; he doesn't know how long he's been lying in bed. He came to participate in a literary festival that is long over—why is he still there? When he attempts to reconstruct his lost days, he learns that he told people at the festival that his best friend had died.

Except his friend is still alive.

So begins At Night's End, the story of a profound friendship that begins in childhood & follows the intertwining paths of two men. The protagonist, Yonatan, stays on in Mexico City, reluctant to return to his wife & infant son back home in Tel Aviv. Convinced that his closest friend, Yoel, is going to die, he struggles to preserve his sanity. But what makes Yonatan avoid his family? And why is he so sure he cannot save his childhood friend?

At Night's End is a compassionate & personal novel of a life lived in literature, & a life lived after loss. Above all, it is...

Jessica Cohen was born in England, raised in Israel, & now lives in the United States. She translates contemporary Israeli fiction, nonfiction, & other creative works, among them David Grossman’s critically acclaimed To the End of the Land. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Financial Times, Tablet, Words Without Borders, & Two Lines.