Jerusalem Ablaze: Stories of Love and Other Obsessions by Orlando Ortega-Medina
Jerusalem Ablaze: Stories of Love and Other Obsessions by Orlando Ortega-Medina
Thanks to Michela DellaMonica of Smith Publicity, Inc, I am giving away 5 print copies of Jerusalem Ablaze: Stories of Love and Other Obsessions by Orlando Ortega-Medina.
Description of Jerusalem Ablaze: Stories of Love and Other Obsessions by Orlando Ortega-Medina
SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2017
In Jerusalem’s Old City a young priest and a dominatrix converse in the dying light; on Oregon’s windswept coast a fragile woman discovers a body washed up on the beach after a storm; and in Postwar Japan a young protégé watches his master’s corpse burn, with bitter thoughts blazing in his mind.
Jerusalem Ablaze: Stories of Love and Other Obsessions collects thirteen eclectic works of dark fiction, taking the reader from Los Angeles to the eastern townships of Quebec, and from Tokyo to Jerusalem.
Ortega-Medina’s characters are flawed, broken individuals, trying their best to make sense of their lives as they struggle with sexuality, death, obsession, and religion. Sometimes bleak, occasionally violent, and often possessed of a dark humour, this major debut explores the imperfections of life and the unpredictability of death.
Praise for Jerusalem Ablaze: Stories of Love and Other Obsessions by Orlando Ortega-Medina
“[B]eautifully wrought, deeply unnerving…Ortega-Medina holds a mirror up to our darkest thoughts and urges – while showing the oneness of the human condition” – The Irish News
About Orlando Ortega-Medina
Orlando Ortega-Medina is a US born British-Canadian author of Judeo-Spanish descent. He studied English Literature at UCLA and has a Juris Doctor law degree from Southwestern University School of Law.
At university he won The National Society of Arts and Letters award for Short Stories. Jerusalem Ablaze: Stories of Love and Other Obsessions is his first published collection. Orlando now resides in London, where he practices US immigration law.
Giveaway of Jerusalem Ablaze: Stories of Love and Other Obsessions by Orlando Ortega-Medina
This giveaway is open to the U.S. only and ends on September 22, 2017 midnight pacific time. Entries are accepted via Rafflecopter only.
This collections sounds fascinating and captivating. The author is brilliant and being Jewish this interests me greatly as am I.Thanks.
Sounds like a wonderful collection, I’d be very pleased to win a copy. Thanks
This sounds like an amazing collection of stories. Would definitely like to win and read. Thanks for this chance.