Closing The Sea
The four stories in this debut collection by a young Israeli writer conjure a surreal Israel suffering from a moral malaise, a land where the chasms between young and old, Jews and Arabs, parents and siblings grow wider every day. In "Schlaffstunde," a nasty little family drama interlaced with Holocaust memories, two young cousins secretly make love; when an uncle discovers them, they plot to kill him. Mother-daughter rivalry fuels "Disneyel," a garishly funny tale, set in a hospital, about two women who are both in love with a tacky entrepreneur who plans to build an amusement park in the Negev. "Fellini's Shoes," a modern fairy tale spiked with macabre phantasmagoria, tells of an ordinary waitress courted by a film director who begs her to play a leading role; soon enough, her life comes to resemble a Fellini movie. "Closing the Sea" limns a timid schoolteacher on her day off, adrift in cold, hard Tel Aviv. In each of these stories, Katzir turns the trivia of daily existence into wickedly mordant social commentary. 'slice of life' used in review of debut collrection in first drop, I think.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.