Stephen Marche
By Stephen Marche
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Culture The Personal And the Political
All Whom I Have Loved By Aharon Appelfeld Schocken, 256 pages, $23. At the beginning of Aharon Appelfeld’s new novel, “All Whom I Have Loved,” 9-year-old Paul Rosenfeld is on summer vacation with his mother, enjoying what are perhaps his last moments of undiluted happiness. He remembers, “Once she put some squares of halva-covered chocolate…
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Culture Redemption Song
***A Woman in Jerusalem By A.B. Yehoshua Translated by Hillel Halkin Harcourt, 256 pages, $25. *** When it comes to literature about terrorism, the world is catching up with Israel. Since September 11, 2001, novels like “Saturday” by best-selling British author Ian McEwan, and “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” by young American writer Jonathan Safran…
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Culture Etgar Keret’s Unlikely Landscape
The Nimrod Flip-out By Etgar Keret Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 176 pages, $12. * * *| Etgar Keret’s fame in Israel is as unlikely as one of his own stories: A young writer of ultrashort, ultramodern fictions produces four straight best-selling collections. The stories in his collections go on to be translated into 16 languages…
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