Eshkol nevo in his astoundingly moving new book three floors up brilliantly captures how the landscape of a marriage can become tenuous and dark while parents struggle with children who seem to need a little extra help.
Three floors up eshkol nevo.
His three loosely interwoven stories take place in an upper middle class apartment building in tel aviv where neighbors observe one another quietly grappling with their own growing desperation.
Novelist eshkol nevo relates his loosely connected stories in a smooth firs.
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 marriage in peril.
Three floors up by eshkol nevo 283 pp.
A brilliant novelist eshkol nevo vividly depicts how the grinding effects of social and political ills play out in the psyche of his flawed yet compelling characters in often unexpected and explosive ways.
Nevo neuland 2014 etc is a bestselling israeli author and his most recent book to be translated into english makes it easy to understand why.
On the first floor arnon attempts to turn.
A father suspects that his 8 year old was molested by the elderly neighbor who sometimes babysits for her.
About three floors up.
10 2017 three residents of an israeli apartment building narrate their worries and woes.
Translated by sondra silverston release date.
Recognizable characters and situations make eshkol nevo s newest novel three floors up an economical yet masterful invention of three households in a suburban tel aviv building written simply but imaginatively translated fluidly by sondra silverston each story is an evening s reading because you won t want to stop american jewish world.
Israeli bestseller nevo neuland returns with a transporting novel about the furtive lives of three tenants in a suburban tel aviv apartment building.
Three floors up.
Recognizable characters and situations make eshkol nevo s newest novel three floors up an economical yet masterful invention of three households in a suburban tel aviv building written simply but imaginatively translated fluidly by sondra silverston each story is an evening s reading because you won t want to stop american jewish world.
Three floors in an apartment building outside tel aviv equal three confessions of affluent angst desire loss and frustrated hopes in this novel that rather too explicitly rests upon the rickety freudian edifice of id ego and superego.
By eshkol nevo.
