Tue 24 Nov · 7pm
Gertrude & Alice Cafe Bookstore · Bondi Beach
David Leser talks his new memoir over a wine in a Bondi bookshop
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Join us for an evening with journalist and author David Leser, as he talks about his new book, 'Light Sleeper'.
WHEN: Tuesday, 24th of November, at Gertrude & Alice Cafe Bookstore. Please arrive at 6:45 pm for a prompt 7 pm start. The event concludes at 8:30 pm, after the book signing.
TICKETS:
Admission: $25.00 (excluding external fees). Includes admission for one to the event and a wine (or beverage) upon arrival.
Admission + Book: $55.00 (excluding external fees). Includes admission for one to the event, a copy of Light Sleeper (RRP: $36.99), and a wine (or beverage) upon arrival.
For half a century, David Leser has wrestled with the question at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: how can two peoples, bound to the same land by history, memory and grief, ever find a way to live together?
Part memoir, part reckoning, Light Sleeper begins in Gaza on the eve of the first intifada and unfolds into a personal journey through war, family history, identity and conscience. The son of a German-Jewish father who fled the Nazis and a mother whose Jewish-Latvian family was exterminated in the Holocaust, Leser - a lifelong supporter of both Israeli and Palestinian rights to safety, security and self-determination - confronts the moral and emotional fault lines exposed by October 7, and the devastating assault on Gaza that followed.
Can a person stand with both Israelis and Palestinians without betraying either? Is criticism of Israel a moral duty, or a dangerous abandonment of…
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When is David Leser: Light Sleeper?
Tue 24 Nov 2026, 7pm.
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Gertrude & Alice Cafe Bookstore, Bondi Beach, NSW.
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