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There's No Place Like Home: Eshkol Nevo's "Homesick"

Jul 05, 20178 min
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Episode description

Eshkol Nevo’s first novel, Homesick, is the engrossing, interwoven story of an apartment community, told from about 8 different first-person perspectives, and a third-person omniscient narrator, as well. The novel was awarded the Book Publishers Association Gold Prize (2005), among other prizes. it was translated by Sondra Silverstein and published in English in 2009. Host Marcela Sulak reads two passages from Homesick on today’s episode.

Text:
Homesick by Nevo Eshkol. Translated by Sondra Silverstein. Vintage Books,2009

Music:
The Night Brings The Morning by The Bridge Project
Nikriz Peşrev by Derya Türkan

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