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Human Parts (Verba Mundi Book),Used
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A novel of ordinary, every day life in Israel during multiple plagues deadly flu, economic collapse, apocalyptic weather, and suicide bombings.It was an exceptional winter. With understatement, Orly CastelBloom draws back the curtain on her disturbing, revelatory novel set in Israel during the Al Aksa intifada. This is a world already regularly interrupted by terrorist ambushes and suicide bombs. And now it is further plaguedby a Saudi flu that is decimating the population, and by weather that brings a ruinous winter after eight years of drought. The economy is shot to pieces. Hail stones as big as dinner plates are falling from the sky. And yet, against this backdrop of monumental affliction, ordinary people are still trying to lead normal lives.Kati BeitHalahmi, an impoverished cleaner, is snatched up by a community television program and given her full fifteenminutesoffame. Iris Ventura, divorced with three children, is wondering how she can afford both to replace her broken washing machine and have some essential dental work done. And the Israeli president, Reuven Tekoa, travels from hospital to funeral, musing on the state of the nation from the back of his limousine.First published in 2002, Orly CastelBloom spins a web of filamentfine connections between her characters. Death or disaster might intrude at any moment, but people still watch game shows on TV, go to the laundromat and train to be beauticians. Holding a mirror up to her country, CastelBloom shows us a society in microcosm, struggling for continuity and normalcy in a fractured world. Sardonic, topical and wholly engrossing, this is a novel capturing the maelstrom of contradictions that is life today.
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