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Life plays with me, by David Grossman: three women of fire

10/29/2020, 10:06:33 AM


THE CHRONICLE OF ETIENNE DE MONTETY - In his latest novel, the Israeli author explores in a masterly way the mother-daughter relationship, the question of silence and transmission.

Touvia Bruck is an agronomist, inspector of agricultural land between Haifa and Nazareth.

But it would be wrong to believe that he is the hero of

Life Plays With Me

.

Make way for women.

Widowed, Touvia married Vera Nowak, a resident of her kibbutz, originally from Croatia.

Vera has a daughter, Nina, who will have with Raphael, Touvia's son, a daughter, Guili.

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Vera, Nina, Guili are the protagonists of the novel by Israeli writer David Grossman.

Three women of fire, three temperaments linked by blood ties, and by a story of which they are the victims, as one would be of a chain explosion: the pomegranates go back to Vera's youth and have not finished. 'burst into the hands of her descendants, if we are given this warlike image to talk about heredity and atavisms.

To follow these women, Grossman invites us to go back in history;

we know that it is a rushing river.

Vera's 90th birthday gives Guili the idea of ​​making a film about his grandmother.

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