Three Floors Up Nevo

Three floors up eshkol nevo trans.

Three floors up nevo.

Israeli bestseller nevo. Three floors up by eshkol nevo translated by sondra silverston reviewed by marina sofia other press 2017 examining society s ills via the metaphor of an apartment building is not a new venture but it works every time. Other press 16 95 trade paper 304p isbn 978 1 59051 878 6. The sto ries are very loose ly linked and progress up the three floors each deal ing with a sit u a tion that comes clos er to res o lu tion as the nov el goes up a floor.

Best selling israeli novelist nevo his hebrew fluidly translated by sondra silverston cleverly infuses these quotidian albeit schadenfreude inducing dramas with numerology everything is in threes freudian analysis the three floors up of id ego superego the power of secrets plus the greater threat of revenge and the literary necessity for confessions if there is. From the hebrew by sondra silverston. A father suspects that his 8 year old was molested by the elderly neighbor who sometimes babysits for her. Nevo has given us the id the ego and the superego all in one novel.

Three floors up by eshkol nevo 283 pp. Her husband has died her son is estranged and she must build a new life for herself. Nevo uses devora to remind us not so subtly that these three characters match up rather neatly to freud s model of consciousness. Ballard s high rise to the yacoubian building of egyptian writer alaa al aswany from bernard malamud s.

Three floors up is a confessional three confessionals to be precise. Lively tripartite novel by eshkol nevo a highly admired israeli author nevo creates three compulsive narrators three unsparingly candid monologues three stories that expose the psyches of people caught at critical points in their lives perceptive and compelling three floors up plays with the form of the novel itself and keeps the reader absorbed in its sets of triads. By eshkol nevo. Devora a retired judge lives on the third floor.

On the first floor a retired army officer clearly suffering from ptsd relates a tale to an unseen army friend about his young daughter who is left in the care of a possibly dementia afflicted neighbor. 1 member reading this now 1 club reading this now 0 members have read this book.