Textile (Jewish Women Writers)

Textile (Jewish Women Writers)

Orly Castel-Bloom

Language: English

Pages: 160

ISBN: 1558618252

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


A wealthy Israeli family is at a precipice in their lives in this nuanced, contemporary novel. As Amanda Gruber, the matriarch of the family, undergoes an invasive cosmetic procedure, Lirit, her rebellious daughter, takes over operations at the family's pajama factory. Her brother Dael serves in the Israeli army as a sniper, while Irad, their neglectful father, a genius scientist, travels to the United States to conduct research on flak jackets. Each family member is pulled in conflicting directions, forced to examine their contentious relationships to one another. With surprising humor, Textile details the gradual disintegration of a family strained by distance and the corrosive effects of consumerism and militarism.

Orly Castel-Bloom is considered a leading voice in Hebrew literature today. Her postmodern classic Dolly City has been included in UNESCO's Collection of Representative Works, and was nominated in 2007 as one of the ten most important books since the creation of the state of Israel. She has received the Tel Aviv Foundation Award, the Alterman Prize for Innovation, the Prime Minister's Prize three times (1994, 2001, 2011), the Newman Prize, the French WIZO Prize for Human Parts, and the Leah Goldberg Prize. Her books have been translated into eleven languages.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the defense minister to approve a trip to New York State, in order to meet an ex-Israeli American who for mysterious reasons was willing to donate her research findings on the golden orb weaver free, gratis, and for nothing. The defense minister was a forgiving man and he approved the trip, which seemed to him an act of despair and an escape from reality. Gruber knew that the ministry had already approached his rivals from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, who were working with biophysicists

the injustices of the past. But Bahat had already set out on her coast-to-coast trip to America with her high school friend, Hagit, and Shoham had studied to be a midwife, and gone to work in the Yoseftal Hospital in Eilat. This being the case, Madeleine Segal took up residence on her own in the ground floor apartment in green Ramat Aviv, and she made no attempt to renew the glory days of the yoga school, with the result that she soon fell into severe economic distress—something she had never

American masseur, whose nickname was Hamlet, had majored in comparative literature at Cornell and graduated with honors. His diploma hung on the wall within sight of the treatment bed. On the opposite wall the visitor from Tel Baruch North made out certificates for the completion of courses in massage and further studies in the field. Three of the diplomas were in Chinese or Japanese. A third wall was full of hand-shaped hamsa amulets. Gruber estimated their number at about fifty, and he asked

duration. In the course of the years he had progressed and traveled the world, while she stayed stuck with the 100 percent cotton pajamas with no fear of religiously prohibited impurities. And even after he had completed all his degrees in biology, technology, and engineering, as well as postgraduate courses in personnel management and administration, Irad Gruber remained a financial burden on his wife. Without funding from any outside agency he applied himself to all kinds of inventions in

constituted 71.3 percent of the population of the town). Anyone in Ithaca could be a member of the new community, even if he was one of the 460 Puerto Ricans in the town, or one of the 125 Vietnamese. Whether he was man over eighteen of any race and color (13,433), or a woman over eighteen of any race and color (13,149). This community had set itself the goal of increasing the goodness inherent in all human beings, of all sectors and genders, and it was called the Goodwill Community. All the

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