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Human parts

Title: Human parts / Orly Castel-Bloom ; translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu.
Author: Castel-Bloom, Orly, 1960-
Publication: Boston : David R. Godine, 2003.

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Additional Authors

Bilu, Dalya

Description

249 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"It was an exceptional winter." With deceptive understatement, Orly Castel-Bloom draws back the curtain on her disturbing, revelatory novel set in Israel during the Al Aksa intifada. This is a world already regularly interrupted by terrorist ambushes and suicide bombs. And now it is further plagued by a Saudi flu that is decimating the population, and by apocalyptic weather that brings a ruinous winter after eight years of drought. The economy is shot to pieces. Hail stones as big as dinner plates are falling from the sky. And yet, against this backdrop of monumental affliction, ordinary people are still trying to lead normal lives. Kati Beit-Halahmi, an impoverished cleaner, is snatched up by a community television program and given her full fifteen-minutes-of-fame. Iris Ventura, divorced with three children, is wondering how she can afford both to replace her broken washing machine and have some essential dental work done. And the Israeli president, Reuven Tekoa, travels from hospital to funeral, musing on the state of the nation from the back of his limousine. Orly Castel-Bloom spins a web of filament-fine connections between her characters whose preoccupations, she reminds us, are not so very different from our own. Death or disaster might intrude at any moment, but people still watch game shows on TV, go to the laundromat and train to be beauticians.

Series Statement

A Verba Mundi book

Uniform Title

Ḥalaḳim enoshiyim. English
Verba Mundi.

Alternative Title

Ḥalaḳim enoshiyim.

Subject

Israel > Fiction
Israel

Genre/Form

Fiction.

Note

תרגום של: חלקים אנושיים.

Source (note)

of Leah Koenig;

Call Number

JFD 22-1822

ISBN

1567922562
9781567922561

LCCN

2003013520

OCLC

52429381

Author

Castel-Bloom, Orly, 1960-

Title

Human parts / Orly Castel-Bloom ; translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu.

Imprint

Boston : David R. Godine, 2003.

Edition

1st U.S. ed.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

A Verba Mundi book

Verba Mundi.

Source

Gift; of Leah Koenig; 2022.

Added Author

Bilu, Dalya

Koenig, Leah, donor.

Other Form:

Online version: Castel-Bloom, Orly, 1960- Ḥalaḳim enoshiyim. English. Human parts. 1st U.S. ed. Boston : David R. Godine, 2003 (OCoLC)648254267

Research Call Number

JFD 22-1822

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