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Tre piani
Tre piani | Eshkol Nevo
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In Israele, nei pressi di Tel Aviv, si erge una tranquilla palazzina borghese di tre piani. Il parcheggio ordinatissimo, le piante perfettamente potate allingresso e il citofono appena rinnovato. Dagli appartamenti non provengono musiche ad alto volume, n voci di alterchi. La quiete regna sovrana. Eppure, dietro quelle porte blindate, la vita non affatto dello stesso tenore. Al primo piano vive una coppia di giovani genitori, Arnon e Ayelet. Hanno una bambina, Ofri, che occasionalmente affidano alle cure degli anziani vicini in pen-sione. Ruth e Hermann sono persone educate, giunte in Israele dalla Germania, lui va in giro agghindato in giacca e cravatta, lei insegna pianoforte al conservatorio e usa espressioni come di grazia. Un giorno Hermann, che da tempo mostra i primi sintomi dellAlzheimer, rapisce Ofri per un pomeriggio, scatenando una furia incontenibile in Arnon, inconsciamente e, dunque, irrimediabilmente convinto che dietro quel gesto, in apparenza dettato dalla malattia, si celi ben altro. Al secondo piano Hani, madre di due bambini e moglie di Assaf, costantemente allestero per lavoro, combatte una silenziosa battaglia contro la solitudine e lo spettro della follia che, da quando sua madre stata ricoverata in un ospedale psi-chiatrico, non smette mai di tormentarla. Un giorno Eviatar, il cognato che non vede da dieci anni, bussa alla sua porta e le chiede di sottrarlo alla caccia di creditori e malintenzionati con cui finito nei guai. Hani non esita a ospitarlo e a trovare cos un riparo alla sua solitudine. Salvo poi chiedersi se lintera vicenda non sia un semplice frutto dellimmaginazione e dei desideri del suo Io. Dovra, giudice in pensione che vive al terzo piano, avverte limpellente bisogno di dialogare con il marito defunto e per farlo si serve di una vecchia segreteria telefonica appartenutagli. Ritorna in tal modo sul passato suo e di suo marito, sul loro ruolo di genitori-guardiani della vita del figlio Arad, ruolo che ha spinto questultimo dapprima a un tragico errore, poi a compiere un gesto estremo che lo ha escluso per sempre dalla loro vita. Sorto da una brillante idea narrativa: descrivere la vita di tre famiglie sulla base delle tre diverse istanze freudiane Es, Io, Super-io della personalit, Tre piani si inoltra nel cuore delle relazioni umane: dal bisogno di amore al tradimento; dal sospetto alla paura di lasciarsi andare. E, come nella Simmetria dei desideri, lopera che ha consacrato sulla scena letteraria internazionale il talento di Eshkol Nevo, dona al lettore personaggi umani e profondi, sempre pronti, nonostante i colpi inferti dalla vita, a rialzarsi per riprendere a lottare. Il nuovo romanzo dellautore della Simmetria dei desideri Una potente allegoria delle nostre paure pi profonde. Ran Bin-Nun, Yedioth Ahronoth Il nuovo libro di Eshkol Nevo lesperienza letteraria pi intensa che ho avuto questanno. Leggetelo. Non ve ne pentirete. Guy Meroz
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Arvena
Three Floors Up | Eshkol Nevo
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Mehso-so

Evocatively and calculatingly told, the writing in here is sublime. Slow-revealing storylines were interesting, but too many questions were left unanswered...

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IuliaC
Three Floors Up | Eshkol Nevo
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Three families live in an elegant residential building. One member in each makes a heart-wrenching confession and paints a vivid and diverse image of Israeli society. I was most touched by the third story, so poignant and heartbreaking.

"The three floors of the psyche do not exist inside us at all! Absolutely not! They exist in the air between us and someone else, in the space between our mouths and the ears we are telling our story to."

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Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick
Three Floors Up | Eshkol Nevo
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A light pick. This book is comprised of three stories, each following a family on different floors of an apartment building in Tel Aviv. They are told almost like confessionals, with a resident from each apartment sharing their story to "you", a friend, a confidant, or a deceased husband. Like you, these confidants don't interact or reply and they feel a bit contrived.

Story one showed a family with two children and how they all interacted⬇️

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick with the older couple across the hall. As things come to a head and Arnon obsesses about his daughter's safety, he makes decisions that affect his family. This one got uncomfortable for some events involving underage girls.

Story three involves Devorah, a judge who recently lost her husband. She tells her story as rambling voicemail messages to him as she deals with loss, new friendship, and longing for an estranged son. ⬇️
4y
Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick Story 2 was my favorite, as it felt the most relatable. Hani is a wife & mother to 2 young children & she is feeling lonely. Her husband isn't an active caregiver & travels often for work, leaving Hani on the parenting island alone. One day her brother-in-law appears on the doorstep, on the run and in need of her help. With the brothers in a rift & her husband away, Hani is game to help. This is the most excitement she's had in a long time. ⬇️ 4y
Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick These stories didn't give me a good sense of place of Tel Aviv, as so much revolves around the apartment building and their secular, personal lives, but it was an interesting way to spend a few hours.

Final April book (finally) #BookspinBingo @TheAromaofBooks and my third finished for #foodandlit #israel @Butterfinger @Texreader @Catsandbooks
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TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! 4y
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Cinfhen
Three Floors Up | Eshkol Nevo
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Mehso-so

#FoodAndLit I was ambivalent when I began this novel but became more invested once I realized it was a collection of interconnected stories. I thought the book dragged in places but overall it was a nice slice of life collection of Israeli life. The stories were a little dark but had a humanness to them. Definitely a #BorrowNotBuy #Scribd 🎧

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litsybookclub
Three Floors Up | Eshkol Nevo
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We will begin our discussion of Three Floors Up at 2pm ET. Link to join: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/437757992

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litsybookclub
Three Floors Up | Eshkol Nevo
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We‘ve decided to postpone our discussion of Three Floors Up by Eshkol Nuevo until next Sunday @ 2pm ET! If you‘d like to join us, we are always excited to have new voices in our discussions. Anyone is welcome to join in.....just read, and join us next Sunday!

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Daisey
Three Floors Up | Eshkol Nevo
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First book of the #Readathon weekend completed! This book includes the stories of three different people in the same apartment building told as confessions. It is stories of the choices and maybe mistakes that they‘ve made and demonstrates how sharing those stories helps them to move forward.

#ReadtheWorld #ReadingtheWorld Israel #translated #LitsyBookClub #audiobook #Hoopla

#MrBook1inAMillion #24B4Monday #LitsyPartyofOne

MrBook Added! 😁 5y
Daisey @Cinfhen I‘m not really sure how to describe this novel without giving away any of the confessions, but I did enjoy it. 5y
Andrew65 Well done. 👏👏👏 5y
Andrew65 The book definitely sounds interesting. 5y
Cinfhen I missed this post!! Thanks for tagging me. I‘m adding it to my #TBR ~ thanks 😊 5y
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Daisey
Three Floors Up | Eshkol Nevo
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#WeeklyForecast #CurrentlyReading

🔹I started Three Floors Up, this month‘s book for #LitsyBookClub, on audio today.

🔹I need to finish and review a #NetGalley #middlegrade ebook, The Tornado.

🔹My current at school read is The Game Changer.

🔹I‘m working my way through the #NotionClub section of our current #FellowshipofTolkien read, Sauron Defeated.

Cinfhen Very interested in your tagged book!! Thoughts??? Please 🥰 5y
Daisey @Cinfhen I just started yesterday, so I‘m not far enough in to have much of an opinion. I‘m enjoying the description, but I‘m not at all sure where it‘s going. 5y
Cinfhen I‘ll await your #BookReport 😄 5y
Cinfhen 👋 Hi!! How‘s Three Floors Up going??? 5y
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litsybookclub
Three Floors Up | Eshkol Nevo
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New month, new book! Please join us in reading Three Floors Up this month. We love seeing our book club members and would welcome you to join us! Questions? Ask @Bookworm83 or @Graciouswarriorprincess . We hope to see you in our Zoom meeting!

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Cinfhen
Three Floors Up | Eshkol Nevo
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#NovemberByTheNumbers Thank you GoodReads search...I found books I read & books I want to read with #three in the title.... TONS of book love for The Family & very curious about the tagged book, a translated novel from a debut Israeli author following #three families who live in an apartment building. It‘s meant to be three short novellas, which ultimately interconnect.

TrishB Not read any of them! 7y
Cinfhen I‘ll keep u posted @TrishB 😘 7y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Look at you! Lots of three-sies! 7y
janeycanuck Three Souls is such a beautiful book. Her new one is pretty good, too, if you haven‘t picked it up yet 7y
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