ESHET, Yoram << back to list Yoram Eshet is professor of Education and Psychology and the head of the Research Center for Innovation in Learning Technologies at the Open University of Israel. He has a Ph.D. in geology from New York University. He has written numerous books on cognition research and learning in computerized environments, as well as on mass extinctions in Earth’s history. Bibliography & Foreign sales A MAN WALKS HOME (Non-Fiction)2010 On October 18th 1973, an exploding Egyptian artillery shell left Yoram Eshet with a devastating brain injury. Defying expectations, he managed to survive, but without the ability to read or write. With epic fortitude and perseverance, he went on to become a university professor. A MAN WALKS HOME traces the events leading to Eshet’s injury as well as the excruciating years that followed it. Eshet’s narrative, written in a unique literary style, chillingly exposes the terrors of war. This forthright, moving, deeply intimate memoir is an excursion into the human spirit, written by a man who had to re-learn everything he thought he knew. Through this journey we witness the trauma of war, marvel at a human being’s resilience and share the wonder of single life lived to its fullest. A MAN WALKS HOME was listed for the Sapir Prize for Literature (the Israeli equivalent to the Booker Prize) and was cited by the Yitzhak Sadeh Prize for military literature. Reviews: “I have read Yoram Eshet’s ”A Man Walks Home” in Hebrew, and it has been an experience that has been walking with me in many ways since I started reading it. It is a deep and touching analysis of Yoram’s personal journey during his injury and his initial recovery, but more generally it is a story of memory and reality, and the struggles we all have with who we are and what we are able to do. I can’t wait for the book to come out in English so that I can share it with the people I love (the ones who can’t read Hebrew).” Dan Ariely, bestselling author of “The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone – Especially to Ourselves” ”A literary masterpiece on rehabilitation and a self discovery voyage that starts with a severe trauma.” – Avi Uri, Ha’aretz ”The story of an anti-hero that describes with a gentle literary hand the long road back to a meaningful life.”– Amia Leiblich, Ha’aretz ”This piercing depiction of one’s soul and destiny make this book universal. Not only is it a testimony to how will power can overcome bodily limitations, it is also a testament to man’s existential state.” – Avi Ofer, Ha’aretz ”Yoram is inviting us to a trip to the wildernesses of his world, naming the sights and opening his life for us”– Hagit Hof, Makor Rishon