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La Mina Lisa
Elle s'appelle Mina et son mari Oved. Il travaille et nourrit la famille. Elle est l'irréprochable mère au foyer qui s'occupe des enfants et du ménage avec toute la ferveur qui sied à sa condition. Au sein de cette famille magnifiquement ordinaire, débarque un jour l'étrange personnage qu'est Flora, la grand-mère d'Oved. Mina s'aperçoit bientôt que celle-ci se débarrasse discrètement de la nourriture qu'elle lui prépare avec soin pour dévorer, littéralement, les manuscrits des scénarios que la jeune femme écrivait du temps de son ambitieuse et insouciante jeunesse.
Révoltée par la boulimie tyrannique de l'aïeule, dont elle a entre-temps appris sans perdre son sang-froid qu'elle était née en Crète au XVIIIe siècle, Mina finit cependant par accepter de s'embarquer en sa compagnie pour un fantastique périple dans le temps. Ce voyage sera pour l'exemplaire mère de famille l'occasion d'une radicale confrontation avec des questions aussi essentielles que celles de la création et de l'imagination, telles que notre époque s'emploie à les asservir.
Révoltée par la boulimie tyrannique de l'aïeule, dont elle a entre-temps appris sans perdre son sang-froid qu'elle était née en Crète au XVIIIe siècle, Mina finit cependant par accepter de s'embarquer en sa compagnie pour un fantastique périple dans le temps. Ce voyage sera pour l'exemplaire mère de famille l'occasion d'une radicale confrontation avec des questions aussi essentielles que celles de la création et de l'imagination, telles que notre époque s'emploie à les asservir.
240 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1995
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About the author
Orly Castel-Bloom
22 books36 followersOrly Castel-Bloom (Hebrew: אורלי קסטל-בלום) is an Israeli author.
Orly Castel-Bloom was born in north Tel Aviv in 1960, to a family of Egyptian Jews. Until the age of three, she had French nannies and spoke only French. She studied film at the Beit Zvi School for the Performing Arts in Ramat Gan.
Castel-Bloom lives in Tel Aviv and has two children.
Castel-Bloom's first collection of short stories, Not Far from the Center of Town, was published in 1987 by Am Oved. She is the author of 11 books, including collections of short fiction and novels. Her 1992 novel Dolly City, has been included in the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works, and in 1999 she was named one of the fifty most influential women in Israel. Dolly City has been performed as a play in Tel Aviv.
In Free Radicals, Castel-Bloom stopped writing in the first-person. In Human Parts (2002) she was the first Israeli novelist to address the subject of Palestinian suicide bombings. Her anthology of short stories You Don't Argue with Rice, was published in 2003. Castel-Bloom has won the Prime Minister's award twice, the Tel Aviv award for fiction and was nominated for the Sapir Prize for Literature.
Israeli literary critic Gershon Shaked called her a postmodern writer who "communicates the despair of a generation which no longer even dreams the dreams of Zionist history."
Orly Castel-Bloom was born in north Tel Aviv in 1960, to a family of Egyptian Jews. Until the age of three, she had French nannies and spoke only French. She studied film at the Beit Zvi School for the Performing Arts in Ramat Gan.
Castel-Bloom lives in Tel Aviv and has two children.
Castel-Bloom's first collection of short stories, Not Far from the Center of Town, was published in 1987 by Am Oved. She is the author of 11 books, including collections of short fiction and novels. Her 1992 novel Dolly City, has been included in the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works, and in 1999 she was named one of the fifty most influential women in Israel. Dolly City has been performed as a play in Tel Aviv.
In Free Radicals, Castel-Bloom stopped writing in the first-person. In Human Parts (2002) she was the first Israeli novelist to address the subject of Palestinian suicide bombings. Her anthology of short stories You Don't Argue with Rice, was published in 2003. Castel-Bloom has won the Prime Minister's award twice, the Tel Aviv award for fiction and was nominated for the Sapir Prize for Literature.
Israeli literary critic Gershon Shaked called her a postmodern writer who "communicates the despair of a generation which no longer even dreams the dreams of Zionist history."
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