The Third Temple
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Who will rule the Holy Land, and at what cost?
In a near-future Jerusalem, harrowing omens plague the city: a desecrated altar, an unbearable stench, a rampant famine. Shaken but devout, Jonathan, the royal family's third son, continues to hold services and offer animal sacrifices at the prophesied Third Temple, built to consecrate the founding of the new Kingdom of Judah. His father, Israel's self-appointed king, has abolished the Supreme Court. The Torah is the law of the land, and only people of the Jewish faith are allowed in. When war breaks out and an angel of God begins to torment Jonathan, warning him of his father's sacrilege, the foundations of the young priest's faith--and then his world--begin to give way.
Winner of the prestigious Bernstein Prize, The Third Temple plunges readers into a tempest of fanaticism, betrayal, and destruction. Where does the power of man end and the power of God begin? With chilling resonance, this vivid novel from one of Israel's leading authors sounds an unforgettable warning amidst rising extremism.
About this Author
Yishai Sarid was born in Tel Aviv in 1965 to Dorit and Yossi Sarid, a prominent Israeli left-wing MP and cabinet member. After serving in the Israel Defense Forces for six years as an intelligence officer, Sarid studied law at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and later earned a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He is an active lawyer and arbitrator, practicing mainly civil and administrative law. To date, Sarid has published eight novels thathave been translated into a dozen languages and awarded numerous accolades, including the Bernstein Prize, the Brenner Prize, and the Levi Eshkol Literary Award for Hebrew literature, and in France, the Grand prix de littérature policière. Sarid lives in Tel Aviv with his wife, Rachel Sion Sarid, an intensive care pediatrician, and their three children.
Yardenne Greenspan (Tel Aviv, now based in New York) is a writer and Hebrew translator. Her translations have been published by Restless Books, St. Martin's Press, Akashic, Syracuse University, New Vessel Press, Amazon Crossing, and are forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Yardenne's writing and translations have appeared in The New Yorker, Haaretz, Guernica, Literary Hub, Blunderbuss, Apogee, The Massachusetts Review, Asymptote, and Words Without Borders, among other publications. She has an MFA from Columbia University and is a regular contributor to Ploughshares .
Reviews
"Yishai Sarid's books might outlive his country: that is the message he bears with beauty and with pain." -- Joshua Cohen, author of the The Netanyahus, winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
"A powerful, visionary work that will leave you breathless. Yishai Sarid has written an unsettling--one could say prophetic--reflection on faith, zeal, and the consequences of ideological extremism. This is a book that feels prescient and urgent: a gripping, insightful novel that serves as both a reflection of our times and a warning for the future of religion and politics in one of the world's most contested regions." -- Reza Aslan, author of Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
"Yishai Sarid is arguably the most inventive Israeli novelist of his generation." -- Le Monde
"The most apocalyptic, futuristic, historical, and perhaps also most realistic novel published in Israel in recent years. . . . Sarid holds the reader in thrall." -- Haaretz
"The project is audacious, and the masterful orchestration of the story and its poetic tone are at the height of this audacity. And so are the questions it raises. . . Beautiful and chilling." -- Le Nouveau Magazine Littéraire
"An extreme novel that reads like a warning." -- Biblioteca Magazine
"Sarid has emerged as a polished storyteller whose writing is lucid, almost transparent, and poetic even though he consciously avoids any poetic pretense. . . The Third Temple is well written, precise and sharp, and its dialogue with Hebrew literature as well as speculative literature is deep and fertile." -- The Bernstein Prize Committee
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