Gail Hareven
Autor de The Confessions of Noa Weber
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Hareven Gail
Obras de Gail Hareven
The Slows 2 copias
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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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1959
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- Israel
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Jerusalem, Israel
- Lugares de residencia
- Jerusalem, Israel (birth)
- Educación
- Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Behavioral Sciences)
Shalom Hartman Institute (Talmud, Jewish philosophy) - Ocupaciones
- writer
columnist
visiting professor (University of Illinois) - Relaciones
- Hareven, Shulamith (mother)
- Premios y honores
- Sapir Prize (2002)
Miembros
Debates
A short story called “The Slows” en Science Fiction Fans (Febrero 2023)
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 14
- También por
- 2
- Miembros
- 128
- Popularidad
- #157,245
- Valoración
- 3.3
- Reseñas
- 8
- ISBNs
- 12
- Idiomas
- 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.… (más)