But it's all a question of "foreground" and "background." I think there's something about the Israeli reality that's always behind everything, that's always animating my characters. Why do you think readers in so many countries are drawn to your predominantly apolitical work?Įtgar Keret: First of all, I do think my work is political, and I do think it relates to the situation here. Yet your work is only obliquely political, and you yourself don't have a political profile. You can find links to other posts and essays in this series at the bottom of the page, and feel free to join in the discussion in the blogs, all this month.-EditorsĪdam Rovner: Readers seem to be drawn to Israeli literature because of their interest in the political conflicts of the Middle East. Adam Rovner interviews Etgar Keret as part of WWB's month-long discussion of Etgar Keret's Girl on the Fridge.
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For a select but dedicated group of people, the last few weeks of December - when Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Eve combine for grand year-end festivities - are also the best time to flee. In her desire to ditch the holidays for a sun-soaked tropical escape, Hopkins is not alone. And the experience proved so agreeable, the 34-year-old book editor has spent every Christmas since then away from her family. That Christmas in Goa six years ago was her first away from home. It was, in fact, the most expensive item on the menu - and yet it was only the equivalent of $5." "And I felt most extravagant eating a fresh lobster. "Growing up in the Northern Hemisphere, where you're used to a white Christmas, I though it was amazing that is was so warm," she recalls. 22, 2003 - Sitting in her swimsuit and sarong on a moonlit tropical beach on Christmas Eve, watching fluorescent salt-laced waves break on the sand, Roz Hopkins experienced a delicious sense of liberation.įar from her Irish Catholic family and the eggnog-by-the-fireplace of a traditional London Christmas, Hopkins instead found herself tucking into a curried lobster on a palm-fringed beach in Goa, India. The people he has grown up with are leaving the planet. His wife, Annie Cameron of the fantastically wealthy Dallas Cameron clan, has some dirty little secrets that unfold across the novel’s pages. They slip over to the sidelines.” Duane has ample justification for being bummed. For decades they’re at the center of things, and then one day they’re not. 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