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Turburlences, by Eshkol Nevo: romantic drifts in Tel Aviv

2/15/2024, 9:20:16 AM

Highlights: Turburlences, by Eshkol Nevo: romantic drifts in Tel Aviv. Three love stories, linked together in a subtle way, plunge the protagonists into anguish. Ironic and brilliant. In Turbulences, published in Hebrew in 2021, one of the great names in Israeli literature, takes up the construction in three parts, three monologues, which had succeeded so well in Three Floors (2015 and 2018 at Gallimard). In this fantastic novel adapted by Nanni Moretti, we followed three characters from the same building in Tel Tel Aviv whose existence suddenly fell into anguish, uncertainty and anger.


CRITICAL - In Israel, three love stories, linked together in a subtle way, plunge the protagonists into anguish. Ironic and brilliant.

In

Turbulences

, published in Hebrew in 2021, Eshkol Nevo, 52 years old, one of the great names in Israeli literature, takes up the construction in three parts, three monologues, which had succeeded so well in

Three Floors

(2015 and 2018 at Gallimard).

In this fantastic novel adapted by Nanni Moretti, we followed three characters from the same building in Tel Aviv whose existence suddenly fell into anguish, uncertainty and anger.

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A former soldier was convinced that his 7-year-old daughter had been touched by the neighbor next door.

An old gentleman of German origin who, with his wife, used to look after little Ofri in exchange for meager compensation.

On another floor, a woman, abandoned by her husband, agreed to hide for a few hours her brother-in-law who was wanted by the police and killers.

When he admitted to her that he had always had a weakness for her, the situation had become complicated.

Finally, on the top floor, a former magistrate, widowed, who was bored...

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