It has been to remember me Eshkol Nevo and to consider that literature is also a matter for publicists. Especially after having recently spoken of cases like those of the French delacourt o Beigbeder. Because Nevo was also immersed in that of language as a claim and phrases as commercial axioms.
Although finally Nevo entered the inscrutable paths of the writer to offer us very special novels with existentialist overtones. Except that the usual scenario of this type of stories (with its transcendental doubts and the possible answers of destiny) are framed, in Nevo's literature, in an action, in the determination of movement as a trigger for will or unexpected change.
That is what Literature with capital letters is about, moving through life as a plot, as a knot in whose outcome we understand more, see more clearly or, on the contrary, we immerse ourselves in the most relevant concerns of the human condition. And to reinforce the final effect, Nevo introduces us to its characters, first-rate actors who know how to move and touch the grain ...
Top 3 recommended novels of Eshkol Nevo
Three floors
Curiosity is a light behind a window. The lives of others are an unfathomable mystery beyond the social masquerade. Delving into these mysteries in a novel allows us to travel behind the curtain, in those scenes where life really happens, away from the spotlights and eyes that place us in the center of a stage to which we owe ourselves and where we represent...
It is a three-story building in a quiet neighborhood of the city. The plants at the entrance are carefully pruned, the intercom is newly renovated and the cars park in an orderly fashion. There is no loud music or disturbing noises from the apartments.
Stillness reigns. And yet, behind each of the doors, life is not so quiet or peaceful. All the neighbors have something to tell. A secret to confess. Eshkol Nevo, a consecrated talent on the international literary scene, gives life to profound and human characters, who, despite the blows that life inflicts on them, are always ready to get up and fight again.
The symmetry of wishes
The turning points are both premeditated by will and accidental. In the balance between considering some aspect of your life and the last script that will be written, there can be an abyss. This story speaks of the dilemma and the decision embodied in a paper note as an inviolable oath towards commitment to oneself.
Some events become special dates in which it is possible to stop and see what has become of our lives. Four friends gather in front of the television. They are not yet thirty years old and have shared youth, studies, dreams, difficulties, hopes and loves. Four young friends, with the best of life before them, and three wishes that each one writes in a note. After four years they will read them again. Perhaps the hope of a more just world, a passion, success or the ideal woman.
That day one of them met a beautiful woman. In his note he writes: “I want to marry Yaara. Have a child with Yaara. Better a daughter ». Destiny's machine is ready to go. But what happens when the passage of time takes away dreams and dissolves the most sincere ambitions?
Eshkol Nevo, one of the most prominent voices on the Israeli literary scene, has composed a beautiful novel. An epiphanic song that traces the hopes, longings and fears that nest in the hearts of these four friends and in a world in which, apparently, only friendship is a true refuge.
The invisible destinations
Searches always end up being a search for oneself. A great loss confronts us with our own existential gaps, with the losses that awaken our fears and longings. That is why the action of searching predisposes us to look for new things with which to fill the holes, if it ends up being possible...
When Mani disappears somewhere in Latin America, his son Dori, a young father of a family in the midst of a crisis, sets off on his search. There he meets Inbar, a journalist who has escaped from his life in Berlin and from a man he no longer loves. Together they search for Mani as their lives and destinies intertwine.
In this extraordinary and gripping novel, Eshkol Nevo traces a beautiful love story through two generations searching for new opportunities, a place of desire and new words, hoping to start over. Or, perhaps, they seek the possibility of contemplating the course of their lives with a different look.
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