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Next Door Neighbor: Eshkol Nevo’s "Three Floors Up"
Next Door Neighbor: Eshkol Nevo’s "Three Floors Up"
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Length:
9 minutes
Released:
Nov 8, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Set in a Tel Aviv apartment building, Eshkol Nevo’s newest novel, Three Floors Up, examines a society in crisis, through the turmoils, secrets, unreliable confessions, and problematic decisions of the building’s residents. On the first floor, Arnon, a tormented retired officer who fought in the First Intifada, confesses to an army friend how his obsession with his daughter’s safety led him to lose control and put his marriage in peril. Above Arnon lives Hani, whose husband travels the world for work while she stays at home with their two children, increasingly isolated and unstable. On the top floor lives a former judge, Devora. Retired and eager to start a new life, she joins a social movement, tries to reconnect with her estranged son, and falls in love with a man who isn’t what he seems. Text: Three Floors Up. Sondra Silverston. Otherpress, Oct. 2017. Eshkol Nevo’s Homesick Episode
Released:
Nov 8, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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