Gail Hareven
Autore di The Confessions of Noa Weber
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Hareven Gail
Opere di Gail Hareven
The Slows 2 copie
Chai Malach 1 copia
Haderech legan eden 1 copia
אגדה חדשה 1 copia
ארוחת צהריים עם אמא 1 copia
מוזה 1 copia
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Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1959
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Israel
- Luogo di nascita
- Jerusalem, Israel
- Luogo di residenza
- Jerusalem, Israel (birth)
- Istruzione
- Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Behavioral Sciences)
Shalom Hartman Institute (Talmud, Jewish philosophy) - Attività lavorative
- writer
columnist
visiting professor (University of Illinois) - Relazioni
- Hareven, Shulamith (mother)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Sapir Prize (2002)
Utenti
Discussioni
A short story called “The Slows” in Science Fiction Fans (Febbraio 2023)
Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 14
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 128
- Popolarità
- #157,245
- Voto
- 3.3
- Recensioni
- 8
- ISBN
- 12
- Lingue
- 1
Hareven's narrator talks a lot about misdirection, how, in a metaphor she uses several times, people like to talk about dust bunnies under the radiator so no one notices the piles of dirty laundry under the bed. And in a way her book is a work of misdirection. "Silence hints at a secret. . . . Is there really a secret that I'm keeping quiet about? (355), she asks. I answer yes, though not in the way she might have intended. "Lies," a story about a woman's childhood memories, also discusses Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot as it tries to understand what motivates sheer evil -- while taking place in Jerusalem circa 2008 and never mentioning Palestinians. While Hareven was writing this book, in 2006, Israel bombed the only power plant in the Gaza Strip, effectively cutting off power to nearly everyone who lived and worked there. 2006 was also the year Israel began the blockade of Gaza which continues to keep food, medical supplies, and technology from the area. I could barely read the final pages as I realized that Hareven was not going to make that connection. Everything she describes is awful, yes, but it's all dust bunnies. Her omission makes this study of evil and its effects a work of evil itself. Imagine a novel about evil set in 1940s Germany that never mentions Jews or Nazis. It's so abhorrent it's almost ridiculous. And that's what Hareven has given us here.
So, for the depiction of trauma and PTSD: 4 stars. For its profound amorality: 0 stars. Rating: 2 stars
Let me remind readers that being horrified by Israel's human rights abuses does not make one anti-Semitic. Jewishness is not synonymous with the actions of the state of Israel.… (altro)