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From Publishers Weekly
Few writers have explored the souls of Israelis with the clear, unsentimental vision that Oz brings to both his novels and his nonfiction. His characters, while influenced by political events in a land under constant siege, also exhibit the universal emotions of love, longing, fear and ambition, as well as the tension of ethical dilemmas. This novel, his 10th (after Fima), is set in Tel Kedar, a quiet desert town in the Negev that is both a microcosm of Israeli society and a vividly evoked setting whose atmosphere and residents are palpable. The protagonists, whose voices alternate in narration, are lovers, but their relationship is starting to fray. Theo, a stolid, graying, insomniac civil engineer in his 60s, feels his life has entered a stage in which he will experience "the gradual decline from pain into sadness." He and Noa, a frenetic, idealistic schoolteacher 15 years his junior, seem to live at cross purposes. They share an apartment, but they exist in a shadowy state of contained emotions and mild bickering. After one of Noa's students accidentally falls to his death from a cliff while on drugs (or did he jump?), ensuing events threaten Theo and Noa's relationship. The boy's shady father, a military adviser in Nigeria (or is he an arms dealer?), offers to finance a drug rehabilitation clinic in his son's memory. Noa leads the task force for the project, which Theo, like most of the community, opposes. The subtle tug-of-war between them shakes rational Theo out of his passivity and into a cautious idealism ("when you're not burning to do anything... you start dying") and moves impulsive Noa to a more thoughtful position. Perhaps Oz's intends this as an object lesson for his country. The narrative sometimes has a static quality despite Oz's lyrical prose, but in the end, his story carries thought-provoking implications.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.
From Library Journal
Aging civil engineer Theo and his younger lover, No'a, who teaches school, have wound up in the stark little town of Tel-Kedar, which seems to be at the ends of the earth. Theo is stolid, proficient, and resigned; dynamic and flighty No'a is his opposite; and their relationship is beginning to wear thin. Then one of No'a's student's dies, apparently of a drug overdose, and the bereaved father comes to Tel-Kedar to establish a drug rehabilitation clinic, putting No'a in charge. Shifting his narrative between the two lovers in a stream-of-consciousness style that seems personal and introspective, as if these characters were talking to themselves, noted Israeli novelist Oz examines the impact of No'a's new job on the lovers while tracing their separate histories. The clinic never gets built, but the relationship endures, perhaps renewed, perhaps not. A lesser writer might have used these events to engineer a momentous change in the lives of his characters, but Oz's brilliance here is to acknowledge that in real life such changes rarely occur. Instead, life ticks on, subtly, slowly, and by novel's end we feel as dusty and obdurate as the desert surrounding Tel-Kedar. For most collections.
-?Barbara Hoffert, "Library Journal"
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.
-?Barbara Hoffert, "Library Journal"
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.
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