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Three Floors Up : A Novel by Eshkol Nevo EN
IsraelDescription:
THE BASIS FOR THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL'S PALMA D'OR-NOMINATED FILM Set in an upper-middle-class Tel Aviv apartment building, this best-selling and warmly acclaimed Israeli novel examines the interconnected lives of its residents, whose turmoils, secrets, unreliable confessions, and problematic decisions reveal a society in the midst of an identity crisis. On the first floor, Arnon, a tormented retired officer who fought in the First Intifada, confesses to an army friend with a troubled military past how his obsession about his young daughter's safety led him to lose control and put his marriag... continue
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To the End of the Land by David Grossman EN
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Ora, amiddle-aged Israeli mother, is on the verge of celebrating her son Ofer's release from army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive. This a book of mourning for those not dead, a mother's lament for life during a wartime that has no end in sight. At the same time, it's joyously and almost painfully alive, full to the point of rupture with the emotions and the endless quotidian details of a few deeply imagined lives. Ora, the Israeli mother in Grossman's story, is surrounded by men: Ilan and Avram, friends and lovers who form with her a love triangle whose intimacies an... continue
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En las afueras de Tel Aviv, un edificio de tres plantas, con dos departamentos en cada una.
Escucharemos, sucesivamente, el monólogo de uno de los moradores de cada uno de los pisos, y podremos observar el aislamiento en que viven respecto a sus vecinos, que aparecen mencionados al pasar en cada monólogo, y como podremos ver, con con frecuencia con impresiones bastante erróneas.
La historia de cada uno es muy interesante, y nos tiene en vilo respecto a cómo terminará. Los personajes están muy bien construidos, y las situaciones que viven, muy humanas... continue
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Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Sondra Silverston EN
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A neurosurgeon runs an illegal immigrant over in his car. There are no witnesses, and the man will die in any case-so why endanger his career and report the accident? But the next day, the victim's wife knocks on the doctor's door and makes him an offer which will completely derail his well-ordered life. How would we have acted in the same situation? This question hovers over this compelling and timely novel by an award-winning author, which masterfully explores the boundary between love and hate, guilt and forgiveness, good and evil.
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Zealot : The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan EN
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A lucid, intelligent page-turner” (Los Angeles Times) that challenges long-held assumptions about Jesus, from the host of Believer Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher walked across the Galilee, gathering followers to establish what he called the “Kingdom of God.” The revolutionary movement he launched was so threatening to the established order that he was executed as a state criminal. Within decades after his death, his followers would call him God. Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of history’s most eni... continue