I was taken by this novel from the first page. Set in 1990s Israel, the author follows a year in the life of a university professor from Haifa, an Orientalist of the old school and senior member of his department, untouched by post-colonial theory and Edward Said. Old fashioned and out of touch i...
Anche se è una tematica assai ricorrente nella narrativa contemporanea, in questa storia Yehoshua decrive la spersonalzzazione degli uomini con grande ed immediata aggressività. Un dirigente giovane ed ambizioso, ha tutti i numeri per fare strada all'interno di una grande azienda produttrice di p...
Sholem Aleichem, a Yiddish idiom which basically means, “Hey, what’s up?” is the pseudonym of Sholem Rabinovich, who has been heralded as the Jewish Mark Twain and who, in my opinion, favorably deserves the comparison. I became interested in reading this book when I learned it was the inspiratio...
I have always been fascinated by Israel and their history but, whatever I have read about Israel has always been written by a non-Jew. Researching about Israeli novelists, I came across Meir Shalev's name. Having never heard of him and guided by the high praises he has received, I searched for o...
Mah, non mi è piaciuto e non mi lascia nulla. Molcho, dopo la morte della moglie, pensa subito a trovare un'altra donna, ma nessuna sembra andargli bene. La cerca come se fosse una cosa che deve fare a tutti i costi, anche se probabilmente non è quello che vuole. Cerca di rivendersi le medicine c...