Avi Shmuelian

Israeli Writing in the Middle East-Avi Shmuelian was born in Rafsanjan, Iran; he presently lives in Jerusalem. He has been a porter, skin-diver, artist, construction worker, hypnotist and restaurant owner. Only at the age of 48 did he publish his first novel, Moonstruck Sunflowers (1992), which has been compared (by the Israeli novelist David Grossman) to the work of Garcia Marquez- COPYRIGHT 1994 Fairleigh Dickinson University [email protected] phon il+089445230 Moonstruck sunflowers For years Mula Youssuf had harbored a desire to …