???Eshkol Nevo, Friday 7 June at 5.30 pm in the bookshop Tarantola meets readers and signs copies of his new book “Legami”.
?More about the book
From the Symmetry of Desires to Three Planes, Eshkol Nevo has narrated the infinite forms of desire. Forms that, from time to time joyful or disturbing, murky or pure, fuel or shatter the magnificent stories of love, family and friendship told by him. Desire, in its inaccessible obscurity, is in short what ensures that Nevo’s narrative fulfills the task of writing capable of captivating the reader: “speaking”, as Sebald indicates, “clearly about dark things”. The stories contained in Legami are not only no exception to this task, but constitute one of his most successful confirmations. These are the events narrated in Everything is Fragile, in which friendship is called to soothe illness, and passion to claim its rights; of the bond between a father and a son capable, in Hungry Heart, of distancing the former from his pathological fickleness; of a lost opportunity for love that, in Forty-love, destiny prepares again; of a marriage proposal which, in You won’t like it, appears indecent due to established conventions and customs, desire, an ungrateful or, on the contrary, expected guest, overwhelms certainties, boundaries, bursts into the comedy of errors in which life takes place, requires decisions that call for challenge. If human existence is always given the faculty of a new beginning, nothing more than the liberating force of desire – Nevo seems to say in the stories narrated in this book – represents the possibility of starting over again, and thus breaking down the walls of prejudice and prejudice. ‘exclusion.
??More about the author
Eshkol Nevo was born in Jerusalem in 1971. Among the best-known Israeli writers on the international literary scene, he teaches creative writing at various institutions. His books, winners of numerous literary prizes, have been translated into 14 languages. Among his works published in Italy are The Symmetry of Desires (2010), Neuland (2012), Nostalgia (2014), Soli e perduti (2015), Three Floors (2017), The Last Interview (2019), Vocabolario dei desires (2020) and The Ways of Eden (202 Sudden passions and filial loves, parental and marital bonds, friendships and betrayals characterize the stories brought together in this book, in which Nevo once again celebrates “all that life that throbs and sometimes he keeps himself hidden.” Valeria Vantaggi, Vanity Fair “Eshkol Nevo is endowed with a natural talent that warrants the suspicion that for him writing and breathing are the same thing.” Alessandro Piperno, La Lettura – Corriere della Sera “Eshkol Nevo knows how to describe the relationships between human beings in search of the meaning of an existence.” Annalena Benini, Il Foglio “One of the most followed exponents of the generation of Israeli writers following David Grossman, Abraham Yehoshua and Amos Oz.” Marco Bobbio, La Stampa Translation from the Hebrew by Raffaella Scardi
