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The Extra (Paperback)
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The Extra (Paperback)
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List price R406
Loot Price R333
Discovery Miles 3 330
You Save R73 (18%)
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An experiment is under way in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: a woman,
recently widowed, is starting a trial period in assisted living,
mainly to placate her over-anxious son, whilst in Jerusalem her
daughter Noga, a young harpist, returns from her job with a Dutch
orchestra to look after the family apartment. To enliven her stay,
Noga's brother finds work for her - playing roles as an extra in
film, TV, and in the opera Carmen. The random roles Noga is thrust
into resonate strangely with her own life which she begins to
re-evaluate. Central to her past is the fact that she refused to
have children, resulting in the break-up of her marriage. No-one in
her family understood her motives for not wanting children and
everyone has a different explanation for it. Now, a chance
encounter with her former husband reveals his continuing powerful,
love as well as a shocking deed she committed during their
marriage. But Noga is a free spirit neither tied to the past nor
defined by it, and always keen to push boundaries. She lives for
her music and is willing to go wherever it takes her. The
three-month experiment proves as much of a test for her as for her
mother and both are radically transformed by the end. A.B. Yehoshua
is as creative, humorous and provocative as ever in The Extra,
exploring themes familiar to him of love, family relationships and
artistic ambitions, set mainly in an ever-changing Jerusalem.
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