Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and

the Pittsburgh Jewish-Israeli Film Festival present

a reading of the acclaimed new novel,

A Heaven of Others

by one of contemporary literature’s leading young voices,

Joshua Cohen

When a ten year-old Jewish boy is exploded on a Jerusalem street by a ten year-old Palestinian boy, he wakes up in a heaven no one in his tradition prepared him for, a heaven of others. Cohen's novel stands at the crossroads of a conflicted city, rich in word-play that both celebrates and dismantles tradition.

"A breathless flight of controlled delirium, an exquisitely blasphemous tour of an afterlife where earth's dominion, in all its terror and glory, trumps the miraculous and overturns the world to come... It's a brave book that should earn its young author the reader's profound and enduring admiration."

-- Steve Stern, author of The Angel of Forgetfulness

Tuesday, March 25^th @ 7:30pm

Kiva Han Café South Craig Street

FREE Admission light refreshments

Cosponsored by

Hillel Jewish University Center of Pittsburgh

Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh

Event info: cultural@pitt.edu

Book info: www.starcherone.com/cohen.htm