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A Moment of Silence was my first published book and my first adult try at English narrative (though I’d scribbled about ten notebooks-full of thrillers in Israel, between the age of 15 and 18, in both Hebrew and English).It was written after the experience of making my third documentary film, To Live in Freedom, in Israel and the occupied Palestinian areas during 1971 and 1972. It proceeded as a series of “memory exercises” in which I tried to recall things as they’d happened and set them down.
A small London publisher, run by an Irish leprechaun, Tim O’Keeffe, who had once discovered the manuscript of Flann O’Brien’s classic The Third Policeman under the author’s deathbed (or so the tale was told), took it on, but transformed my present-tense narrative into a more conventional past-tense. Tim later became my agent and placed my three Blok books with their respective London publishers. I dedicated my most recently published novel, The Days of Miracles and Wonders, to him, as “The Good Publisher.” It was a risky project for a small press, and of course made no money, though it did get a few decent reviews.
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