Dan Sofer

Dan Sofer writes comic speculative fiction rooted in Jerusalem's streets, religious traditions, and political contradictions. An Unexpected Afterlife opens the Dry Bones Society trilogy and follows Moshe Karlin, who awakens in the Mount of Olives cemetery two years after his burial. Published in 2017, the novel treats his return as both a family problem and a theological mystery: Moshe wants his former life back, yet the city is beginning to confront other impossible returns. Sofer balances questions about resurrection, marriage, identity, and redemption with satire of institutions and daily life in modern Israel. The second and third books, An Accidental Messiah and A Premature Apocalypse, continue Moshe's story and complete the sequence. Sofer moved to Jerusalem in 2001, and the city's places and traditions shape the story's comedy, mystery, and religious imagination. An Unexpected Afterlife establishes that combination of local detail, spiritual speculation, mystery, and humor while introducing the trilogy's central character and premise.