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There's No Place Like Home: Eshkol Nevo's "Homesick"
There's No Place Like Home: Eshkol Nevo's "Homesick"
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Length:
8 minutes
Released:
Jul 5, 2017
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Podcast episode
Description
Eshkol Nevo’s first novel, Homesick, is the engrossing, interwoven story of an apartment community, told from about 8 different first-person perspectives, and a third-person omniscient narrator, as well. The novel was awarded the Book Publishers Association Gold Prize (2005), among other prizes. it was translated by Sondra Silverstein and published in English in 2009. Host Marcela Sulak reads two passages from Homesick on today’s episode. Text: Homesick by Nevo Eshkol. Translated by Sondra Silverstein. Vintage Books,2009 Music: The Night Brings The Morning by The Bridge Project Nikriz Peşrev by Derya Türkan
Released:
Jul 5, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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