The Promised Land, Not Yet...
Publisher
:
Ramsay
Parution date
:
2002
EAN
:
9782841146161
Description
How to survive as a young Jewish in a world that claims to work on culture, progress and peace? Michael Sebban asks this question with humor and despair in his first provocative novel.
Eli S. returns to Jerusalem, this time for good. The city where peace once reigned, has now succumbed to fear with the beginning of the second uprising.
Eli S. is not a political person, and is neither Zionist nor religious. He depicts an Israel whose youth is more interested in the joys of surfing and the fluctuations of the NASDAQ than in the occupied territories, but where everyone knows that both life and death are imminent. This is an at times hilarious and often poignant initiation tale about the trials and tribulations of the generation of young, idealistic immigrants that make up a large part of Israel today.
Author
Michaël Sebban : Michaël Sebban, born in 1966, is a surfer, rapper, and philosophy teacher. He has published, under the pseudonym Didier Gaulbert, La philo, ça prend la tête (Plon, 2001), an account of teaching in suburban schools, and a novel La terre promise, pas encore (Ramsay, 2002.)
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