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Loading... My First Sonyby Benny Barbash
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. 10-year-old Yotam relays the fate of his dysfunctional yet loving family through the recordings he makes on a tape recorder he gets from his father. This stream-of-consciousness story takes a few pages to get into since Yotam transcribes recorded conversations that he doesn't always himself understand - although the reader does - along with his own ponderings and tangents thrown in. It never ceases to be fascinating, though, even borderline addictive, since you can virtually feel every person's passion for the point they're making, whether it be right-wing politics or left, religion or secularism, love or hate. It's a tragic, funny, and sometimes frustrating roller-coaster ride which ultimately describes a microcosm of Israeli contemporary society with its numerous and inherently disparate views on life. no reviews | add a review
Asraf, cheat, adulterer, loveable father, gives his ten-year-old son a Sony Walkman. Yossam simply uses it to record all the conversations of his mad, maddening family. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)892.436Literature Literature of other languages Middle Eastern languages Jewish, Israeli, and Hebrew Hebrew fiction 1947–2000LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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His father, whom he adores despite his many vices, gives him a tape recorder, which the author uses as a literary device to capture the voice and breath patterns of the other characters.
I simply loved this story, and thought that the voice was profoundly authentic.
Five stars. ( )