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Dolly City
Dolly City
Dolly City
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Dolly City

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"Dolly City—a city without a base, without a past, without an infrastructure. The most demented city in the world." In the midst of a futuristic-primitive metropolis, the accumulation of all our urban nightmares, Doctor Dolly (certified by the University of Katmandu) finds a newborn baby in a black plastic bag, and decides to become a mother. Overcome by unfamiliar maternal urges, Dolly dispenses with her private lab of rare diseases and turns all her surgical passion onto her son. Ceaselessly cutting and sewing, Dolly is the scalpel-wielding version of the all-too-familiar Jewish Mother archetype, forever operating upon her son with destructive, invasive love. In this grotesque satire of war and the defensive measures taken to survive it, Orly Castel-Bloom, one of Israel's most provocative and original writers, turns her own scalpel upon that most holy of institutions, the myth of motherhood—and its implications in the life of a nation.
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Release dateOct 5, 2010
ISBN9781564786661
Dolly City
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Orly Castel-Bloom

Orly Castel-Bloom is a leading voice in Hebrew literature today. Her postmodern classic Dolly City has been included in UNESCO’s Collection of Representative Works, and was nominated in 2007 as one of the ten most important books since the creation of the state of Israel. An Egyptian Novel won the Sapir Prize in 2015.

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    Dolly City by Orly Castel-BloomThis short dystopian tale is written in a fearless, shocking and courageous language that, at first, can be off-putting. The author describes an Israel and a heroine beset with paranoia, chaos, disease and hopelessness. A doctor, trained in Katmandu, she travels her city and land searching for sense of family and security that is not possible in this horrid state of affairs. At one point, she adopts an infant and out of a misguided maternal instinct performs untold surgical and other medical interventions in a sick, misguided attempt to protect him from the world around them. She meets a man called Gordon who claims “I’m the first Jew to work the land since the destruction of the Second temple” yet after being together for 9 months (symbolic) “history and folklore had taken him over completely. All the theories about Mother Earth and working the land were bullshit. He was sick of Dolly City, he wanted to try his luck in Mexico City”. In the end one has to believe that the author's tale is a commentary on Israel and the complications it faces dealing with their Arab neighbors and their own internal political forces.If one can get past the horror of its language it can be an engrossing experience that I will be thinking about for some time. This book is not for everyone.

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