Bliss A Novel edition by Ronit Matalon Jessica Cohen Literature Fiction eBooks
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Set in Tel Aviv and Paris, a powerful story of love, friendship, regret, and war, as current as today's headlines
Ronit Matalon's fiction has been praised as "haunting," "inventive," "refreshingly daring." Now in a graceful, illuminating second novel, she tells a provocative story of two loves, two partings, two worlds, two women Ofra and Sarah.
When Ofra is called from Tel Aviv to France to attend the funeral of her beloved cousin Michel, she escapes a life lived vicariously through Sarah, her oldest friend, a photographer and political activist. In Paris, Ofra enters the embrace of her French family and the intimate world of domestic life, while Sarah, in Tel Aviv, drifts even farther from her husband, Udi. Drawn to a Palestinian nationalist, she takes on the fight for a girl from Gaza who has been injured by an Israeli bullet and needs medical treatment that can only be had inside Israel. As Sarah adopts the cause with near- destructive zeal and pledges herself to the suffering of others, her own child goes untended, with dreadful consequences for all.
Against a backdrop of national conflict, Bliss confronts the terrible dilemma of choosing between one's desires and one's beliefs, between grand ideological commitment and the more mundane claims of family. With vivid, penetrating prose, Matalon has delivered a large and resonant work that is as artful as it is affecting.
Bliss A Novel edition by Ronit Matalon Jessica Cohen Literature Fiction eBooks
Ronti Matalon has written a truly insightful and deep novel with Bliss, or Sarah, Sarah, as it is called in the Hebrew original. Matalon is deeply humanistic and loving to her characters, even as she exposes their many faults and shortcomings. Matalon, as an Israel writer, also inevitably handles the divisions and stresses of Israeli society, but she never sacrifices character or plot with any agenda. So even though the book is full of tales of Gaza, the Arabs, the security situation, the novel does not suffer. Matalon stays true to the form she has artfully arranged, building the story in a series of tantalizing back stories, remembrances, and a looping around to previously told stories, adding depth and measure to the novel as she goes. As such, Bliss becomes a novel about itself while never sacrificing the nuts and bolts of good old fashioned story telling.Product details
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Bliss A Novel edition by Ronit Matalon Jessica Cohen Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Care about animals? Beware of this book. One plot features the torture, persecution and killing of an old, partially blind cat.
I read several editorial reviews and none mentioned this. From them, I expected a challenging read. I was interested in the women, their emotional lives, and how they coped with their families and their social and political environments.
I generally give a book a fifty page trial. With this book, I decided at that point not to continue with it. The violence toward the cat was introduced and I knew this was not a good book for me. But, I read the last few pages. (Probably hoping I was wrong and that the outcome for the cat, anyway, was good.) Mistake!
The one star rating is the mimimum accepted by . I would rate this heartless book in the negatives for the negative impact it had on me.
Ronit Matalon is one of the most important young writers in Israel today. She is passionate and humane, and refuses to be sentimental or cliched. it's a shame that the only other review of this novel ignores the greatness of Matalon's humanity and doesn't bother to consider her novel's literary and political merits. 'Bliss' is not a novel that is emotionally 'easy' in any way -- it not only confronts the contradictions of political and national identity, but also the tensions of love. It does this using crystalline prose and an a-linear style that forces the reader to be actively engaged in the novel. Though her first novel, 'The One Facing Us,' is more theoretically daring, I recommend 'Bliss' to anyone who accepts that politics and love are too complex to be represented as "us" or "them," "black" or "white," "with us" or "against us."
Ronti Matalon has written a truly insightful and deep novel with Bliss, or Sarah, Sarah, as it is called in the Hebrew original. Matalon is deeply humanistic and loving to her characters, even as she exposes their many faults and shortcomings. Matalon, as an Israel writer, also inevitably handles the divisions and stresses of Israeli society, but she never sacrifices character or plot with any agenda. So even though the book is full of tales of Gaza, the Arabs, the security situation, the novel does not suffer. Matalon stays true to the form she has artfully arranged, building the story in a series of tantalizing back stories, remembrances, and a looping around to previously told stories, adding depth and measure to the novel as she goes. As such, Bliss becomes a novel about itself while never sacrificing the nuts and bolts of good old fashioned story telling.
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