Where I Am Shem-Ur Dana
Where I Am Shem-Ur Dana "Establishes Dana Shem-Ur as one of the rising stars of the new Israeli literature."--Joshua Cohen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The NetanyahusA piercing novel about the…
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Where I Am Shem-Ur Dana
"Establishes Dana Shem-Ur as one of the rising stars of the new Israeli literature."--Joshua Cohen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The NetanyahusA piercing novel about the experience of a life abroad in a cultural setting not one's own: Reut is an Israeli translator in Paris with a French husband and their child. During the elaborate meal, she sits on the edge of her chair, alert and navigating a tangle of cultural codes with which she's never been fully at ease. But she feels isolated and misunderstood, resulting in a sense of estrangement that explodes at a festive dinner party with affluent, intellectual friends.
Where I Am, Dana Shem-Ur's virtuoso debut, blends comedy and travelogue to examine a woman's attitudes about belonging to a man, to a culture, to a language. Will she escape the alienation that accompanies her everywhere? It concerns