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Chargement... Sadness Is a White Bird: A Novel (2018)par Moriel Rothman-Zecher
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. 19-year Jonathan returns to Israel from the U.S. to serve in the Israel Defense Force, in part to honor his grandfather and in part, his Jewish identity. Through his family, he meets the son and daughter of a Palestinian friend, and becomes very friendly with the twins, spending as much as his free time as possible with Laith and Nimreen, eventually becoming intimate with both. Their cross cultural friendship is refreshing. But, of course, the long-standing conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians eventually interferes. The author writes well, even poetically at times, but I did not care for the second person narrative format nor the ending in particular. ( ) This is a story about an American Jewish high school student that moves to Israel and tries to out Israeli everyone including joining the IDF. He falls in love with a set of Palestine twins, and that's when the young man gets conflicted. He has some sexual experiences with both the female and male twin, and that starts to get into the area of creepiness. Is it wrong for me to say that I thought the parts about Salonica was where the books was strongest? There's a lot of stuff here about the relationship between young Jewish Israelis and the army, young Jewish Israelis and their Jewish identity and young Jewish Israelis and young Muslim Israelis, but a lot of it is glossily written and lacquered over with some YA lust, sexual experimentation and a cannabis haze. The giant and absurd coincidence propping up the centre of the book feels unearned and antithetical to the nuance that the author is attempting. This was a little disappointing on a couple of levels. This was a really gorgeous book with great narration. A young man leaves America to return to Israel for his military service. Before enlisting, he meets Palestinian brother/sister twins and develops a deep friendship with them both. As he learns their family history, he starts to feel conflicted about his upcoming military service. The narrative starts with him in a military jail, then flashes back to the time leading up to his arrest. The issues are complex. His desire to help his family and the state of Israel war with his compassion for the Palestinians. There are no easy answers here, but it is a compassionate look at both sides. . This coming-of-age, love-triangle narrative, is the story of a young Israeli-American who, as he is preparing to serve in the Israeli army, befriends two Palestinian siblings, and is forced to confront his own identity. It is an empathetic story of Israel and Palestine, history and memory, explored through the intimate bonds between young Jewish and Muslim Israelis that is, at times, humorous, joyful, melancholy, and tragic. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"In this lyrical and searing debut novel written by a rising literary star and MacDowell Fellow, a young man is preparing to serve in the Israeli army while also trying to reconcile his close relationship to two Palestinian siblings with his deeply ingrained loyalties to family and country. Four days after his nineteenth birthday, Jonathan is sitting in a military jail in Israel. Languishing in the dark cell, he recalls the series of events that led him to this point. It all began when he returned to Israel after being raised and educated in Pennsylvania. He knows that he will soon be drafted as a soldier. He will be called upon to preserve and defend the Jewish state, which includes monitoring the Palestinian territories within its borders but he is conflicted. With an intense drive to know more about the plight of the displaced and occupied Palestinians, he encounters Laith and Nimreen--the twin daughter and son of his mother's friend. From that summer afternoon on, the three become inseparable: wandering the streets on weekends, piling onto buses en route to new discoveries, laughing uncontrollably. They share joints on the beach, trade private cultural treasures, intimate secrets, resentments, hopes, and dreams, revealing the deepest parts of themselves to each other. But with his draft date rapidly approaching, Jonathan wrestles with the question of what it means to be proud of your heritage while also feeling love for those outside of your own tribal family. And then that fateful day arrives, the one that lands Jonathan in prison and changes his relationship with the twins forever. Unflinching, important, and timely, Sadness Is a White Bird looks into the heart of what occupation and freedom really mean, exploring how one man attempts to find a place for himself, and discovers a beautiful, cross-cultural, against-the-odds love, the kind of love which we can hold up as an ideal in the midst of what seems like an implacable and never-ending conflict"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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