Eshkol Nevo

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La simmetria dei desideri

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.

Homesick

Four friends watch the 1998 World Cup final together, as usual. 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 follow the lives of the four, watching what happens to their wishes and their friendships as life marches on. The four men's bond is deep and solid: they talk to one another, think and consult, but they are also driven by their passions and competitiveness. Indeed, throughout the novel, suppressed violence simmers beneath the surface, threatening to erupt at any time. They are tested by betrayal, death, distance and personal changes. Each friend offers a different perspective, though not necessarily a reliable one... and as they and the world around them changes, so do their ideas of friendship and happiness. By the end they are forced to ask themselves: in a society such as this, a reality like ours, can wishes 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?

World Cup Wishes

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 marriage in peril. Above Arnon lives Hani, known as "the widow," whose husband travels the world for his lucrative job while she stays at home with their two children, increasingly isolated and unstable. When her brother-in-law suddenly appears at their door begging her to hide him from loan sharks and the police, she agrees in spite of the risk to her family, if only to bring some emotional excitement into her life. On the top floor lives a former judge, Devora. Eager to start a new life in her retirement, Devora joins a social movement, desperately tries to reconnect with her estranged son, and falls in love with a man who isn't what he seems. 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.

A Novel

Three Floors Up

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Une lune de miel en Amérique du Sud tourne au cauchemar. Un médecin-chef d’un hôpital de Tel-Aviv se sent étrangement proche d’une jeune femme de son service jusqu’à éprouver le besoin impérieux de la protéger. Un couple marié a pour habitude de se promener le samedi matin dans un verger à la périphérie de la ville, mais lorsque l’homme entre pour un instant dans le jardin, il disparaît sans laisser de traces.
Trois histoires d’amour turbulentes et non conventionnelles s’entrecroisent et nous plongent dans l’énigme qui se trouve au cœur de toute intimité. Sans délaisser l’ironie si caractéristique de son écriture, Eshkol Nevo fouille les relations humaines en utilisant habilement les mécanismes du thriller.

Turbulences

Markus Lemke

WM-Finale 1998. Frankreich - Brasilien. Fiebrige Stimmung vor der Glotze zwischen Churchill, Juval, Amichai und Ofir. Die vier sind um die dreißig, Freunde seit Jugendtagen, sie gucken zusammen Fußball, quatschen, kiffen, sind füreinander da. Da verfällt einer auf eine kuriose Idee - drei Lebenswünsche auf einen Zettel zu schreiben, die Zettel zu verstecken und erst beim nächsten Finale die Wünsche preiszugeben ... Wird das Glück auf ihrer Seite sein? Vier Jahre später ist nichts, wie es war. Die Stimmung im Land ist explosiv, die Wünsche sind verweht, das Leben schmeckt anders.

Wir haben noch das ganze Leben

משאלה אחת ימינה [תכניה].

הראיון האחרון

L'ultima intervista

"First published in Israel as Shalosh Komot by Kinneret Zmora-Bitan, Tel Aviv, in 2015"--Copyright page.

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.

Neuland

Три поверхи / Three Floors Up

National Jewish Book Award Finalist Wingate Literary Prize Shortlist Named a Notable Translated Book of the Year by World Literature Today From the internationally best-selling author of Three Floors Up, a literary page-turner that delves into the deepening cracks in a carefully constructed public persona. A writer tries to answer a set of interview questions sent to him by a website editor. At first, they stick to the standard fare: Did you always know you would be a writer? How autobiographical are your books? Have you written any stories you would never publish? Usually his answers in these situations are measured, calculated, cautious. But this time, when his heart is about to break and his life is about to crumble, he finds he cannot tell anything but the truth. The naked, funny, sad, scandalous, politically incorrect truth. Every question the writer tackles opens a door to a hidden room of his life. And each of his answers reveals that at the heart of every truth, there is a lie—and vice versa. Surprising, bold, intimate, and utterly engrossing, The Last Interview shows just how tenuous the lines are between work and life, love and hate, fact and fiction. And in exploring the many, often contradictory facets of an Israeli author’s identity, Eshkol Nevo also gives us a nuanced, thought-provoking portrait of a country at odds with itself.

The Last Interview

From the internationally bestselling author of Three Floors Up, a novel of psychological suspense exploring the vagaries of love and relationships through three interlocking stories. A honeymoon in South America that should have been romantic becomes more nightmarish by the minute. A senior doctor at a Tel Aviv hospital feels a powerful, inexplicable urge to protect a young female resident who has recently joined the internal medicine department. A married couple goes out for their regular Saturday morning walk in the orchards on the outskirts of town. The man walks back into the orchard for a moment—and disappears without a trace. Eshkol Nevo’s darkest, most thrilling novel to date, Inside Information weaves together three turbulent and unconventional love stories, diving deep into the enigma that lies at the heart of all intimacy, whether between a man and a woman, a parent and a child, or a person and what they’ve lost.

Inside Information

Traducere și note de Marlena Braester În 2018, imediat după publicare, Ultimul interviu a urcat pe prima poziție în topul vânzărilor de carte din Israel și s-a menținut acolo 30 de săptămâni. În 2019 a fost bestseller în Italia, desemnat de Corriere della sera una dintre cele mai bune cărți ale anului. Romanul a fost finalist al National Jewish Book Award, nominalizat în Italia la Premio Lattes Grinzane și în Franța la Prix Femina étranger. Sub aparența unei suite de întrebări și răspunsuri – un interviu pentru un site dedicat literaturii –, Eshkol Nevo construiește un roman profund și captivant despre un scriitor israelian de succes, care îi seamănă neliniștitor de mult. Fiecare întrebare este punctul de plecare a unui fir narativ, iar din mănunchiul acestora se țese confesiunea curajoasă a unui bărbat silit să constate că tot ce a clădit pare să se năruie. Căsnicia lui este într-un impas pe care singur l-a creat. Fiica lui cea mare a plecat de acasă, simțindu-se trădată de un tată pentru care realitatea e o sursă de ficțiune, iar sentimentele celor dragi, un izvor de inspirație. Prietenul cel mai bun este lovit de o boală necruțătoare, dar poveștile nu îi pot alina suferința. Început cu dezinvoltură și chiar frivolitate, interviul devine tot mai serios, silindu-l pe artistul matur să se maturizeze ca om și să își reconsidere istoria personală: a fost literatura un refugiu din fața vieții, sau i s-a substituit, iar acum el trebuie să plătească prețul?

Ultimul interviu

Named a Notable Translated Book of the Year by World Literature Today From the internationally best-selling author of Three Floors Up, a literary page-turner that delves into the deepening cracks in a carefully constructed public persona. A writer tries to answer a set of interview questions sent to him by a website editor. At first, they stick to the standard fare: Did you always know you would be a writer? How autobiographical are your books? Have you written any stories you would never publish? Usually his answers in these situations are measured, calculated, cautious. But this time, when his heart is about to break and his life is about to crumble, he finds he cannot tell anything but the truth. The naked, funny, sad, scandalous, politically incorrect truth. Every question the writer tackles opens a door to a hidden room of his life. And each of his answers reveals that at the heart of every truth, there is a lie—and vice versa. Surprising, bold, intimate, and utterly engrossing, The Last Interview shows just how tenuous the lines are between work and life, love and hate, fact and fiction. And in exploring the many, often contradictory facets of an Israeli author’s identity, Eshkol Nevo also gives us a nuanced, thought-provoking portrait of a country at odds with itself.

Traducere de Ioana Petridean Roman încununat cu Premiul ADEI-WIZO în Italia și finalist la Kritikerpreis der Jury der Jungen Kritik în Austria, Simetria dorințelor a fost tradus în mai multe limbi, devenind bestseller în Israel, Germania, Italia, Spania și Marea Britanie. Patru bărbați tineri, buni prieteni, au obiceiul de a se întâlni pentru a urmări împreună finala Campionatului Mondial de Fotbal, obicei respectat cu sfințenie încă de pe vremea când erau elevi. Desigur, meciurile de fotbal nu reprezintă decât un pretext, așa cum se întâmplă și în cazul finalei din 1998. Doar că acum unul dintre ei are o idee: fiecare să scrie pe o bucățică de hârtie câte trei dorințe pe care le vrea împlinite până la meciul final al următorului Campionat Mondial, când vor vedea ce anume au reușit să realizeze și ce nu. Această secvență din deschiderea romanului marchează momentul în care Nevo începe să exploreze culisele vieților și trăirilor cele mai intime ale celor patru tineri, cartografiind o prietenie care ni se dezvăluie în toată forța ei covârșitoare, în ciuda trădărilor, a violenței, a resentimentelor și chiar a morții.

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