Orly Castel-Bloom
Orly Castel-Bloom is Israel's most fearless, provocative and original writer. She has won several major awards, including the 1992 Prime Minister's Award for Literature, and has been translated into many languages. Born in Tel Aviv in 1960 to French-speaking Jewish Egyptian parents, she completed her army training, then studied film at Tel Aviv University. She lives there with her two children.
'Dolly City' is a controversial novel, bravely executed. It is deliberately post-modern, using the flat, harsh and violent language of the cartoon or the world of punk. It is an irreverent satire, an original and timely tour de force about the Yiddish-mamma complex. Drifting and abandoned in a hostile city, Mother Dolly (Israel) doctors her son with a love that destroys, until she learns the meaning of compassion.
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Dolly City
A fable of the comic-horror of modern urban existence seen through the eyes of 'Doctor' Dolly, a drop-out, a woman alone in an alienating city, Dolly mounts a solitary, crazy and comic protest against warmongers and beaurocrats. She adopts a 'son' who she finds on the road. Hilariously and miraculously, her son survives despite everything his mother (Israel) does to him.
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