Reviews Three Floors Up

4 4 out of 5.

Reviews three floors up.

Three floors up by eshkol nevo 283 pp. Nevo has given us the id the ego and the superego all in one novel. Paperback releases for the week of october 9th include a book of american martyrs a powerfully resonant and provocative novel from joyce carol oates who tells the story of two very different yet intimately linked american families. Other press 16 95 trade paper 304p isbn 978 1 59051 878 6.

It is a very multi layered and profound prose full of symbolism and freudian ideas. Week of october 9 2017. A novel customer reviews. Set in a tel aviv apartment building this best selling israeli novel examines a society in crisis through the turmoils secrets unreliable confessions and problematic decisions of the building s residents.

Devora a retired judge lives on the third floor. The sto ries are very loose ly linked and progress up the three floors each deal ing with a sit u a tion that comes clos er to res o lu tion as the nov el goes up a floor. About the book three floors up. Eshkol nevo is the author of five novels all best sellers in israel.

5 star 69 4 star 16 3 star 8 2 star 0 0 0 1 star 7 three floors up. The book covers a wide range of topics adultery fear for a child loneliness family life difficulties the line between fantasy and reality and the parent child relationship. Three floors up by eshkol nevo is an outside perspective on the lives of people like you and me. Her husband has died her son is estranged and she must build a new life for herself.

Nevo uses devora to remind us not so subtly that these three characters match up rather neatly to freud s model of consciousness. Ruth and alex who decide after 40 years that it s gotten too hard to live in their fifth floor walkup. A father suspects that his 8 year old was molested by the elderly neighbor who sometimes babysits for her. But the various other plot threads that weave in and out of this.

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The following is from eshkol nevo s novel three floors up.