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World Cup Wishes (Paperback)
Eshkol Nevo; Translated by Sondra Silverston
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Four friends get together to watch the 1998 World Cup final. One of
them has an idea: let's write down our wishes for the next few
years, put them away, and during the next final - four years from
now - we'll get them out and see how many we've achieved. This is
how World Cup Wishes opens, and from here we watch what happens to
their wishes and their friendships as life marches on. The four
men's bond is deep and solid, but tested by betrayal, death,and
distance their alliance comes under pressure. Each friend offers a
different perspective, though not necessarily a reliable one... and
as they and the world around them change, so do their ideas of
friendship and happiness. By the end they are forced to ask whether
wishes can really be fulfilled. Or will their story turn out to be
a requiem - for a generation, for friendship, or even for one of
the four young men? Once again, Eshkol Nevo has produced a novel
suffused with charm, warmth and an astonishing wisdom.
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Homesick (Paperback)
Eshkol Nevo; Translated by Sondra Silverston
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This heart-warming, charming and clever first novel dips into the
lives of each of the inhabitants of a village in Israel.
It is 1995 and Noa and Amir, a student couple, have decided to move
in together. Noa is studying photography in Jerusalem and Amir is a
psychology student in Tel Aviv. They choose a small apartment in a
village in the hills, midway between the two cities.
Originally called El-Kastel, the village was emptied of its Arab
inhabitants in 1948 and is now the home of Jewish immigrants from
Kurdistan. Not far from the apartment lives a family grieving for
their eldest son who was killed in Lebanon. The younger brother
left behind, Yotam, forgotten by his parents, turns to Amir for
support.
Further down the street, Saddiq watches the house while he works at
a building site. He knows that this house is the one from which his
family was driven by the Jews when he was a boy, and to which his
mother still has a rusty key. Despite friendships that develop and
lives that become entwined, tensions among this melting pot of
characters seem to be rising to the surface.
This enchanting and irresistible novel offers us windows into the
characters' lives. Each comes from somewhere different but we
gradually see that there's much about them that's the same.
Homesick is a beautiful and moving story about history, love,
family and the true meaning of home.
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Neuland (Paperback)
Eshkol Nevo; Translated by Sondra Silverston
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Dori's father has gone travelling in South America and, suffering
from some kind of breakdown, following the death of his wife, he
goes missing. Dori sets out to find him, leaving his wife and young
son at home in Israel. Inbar is escaping from her life - from the
grief that she can't shake after her brother's death, from the
boyfriend she doesn't love - and impulsively sets out for South
America. While she's there she meets a man who is searching for his
father... In his most ambitious novel to date, Eshkol Nevo weaves a
beautiful love story with two tales: the story of the wandering
Jews who came to their Promised Land in the wake of the Second
World War, embodied by Inbar's grandmother Lily's narrative of her
sea journey over from Poland, and the story of a new generation of
wandering Israelis who leave again to go backpacking, perhaps
hoping that the distance will allow them to see their homeland more
clearly. Neuland is a romantic adventure, a search for a father
that leads to love, and a quest for an understanding of identity
and for second chances. Is it ever possible to start again? Nevo
has produced a daring, epic novel that asks profound questions, but
the truth and warmth of his writing make it all-consuming and
irresistibly loveable.
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