Where I Am
Description
"Establishes Dana Shem-Ur as one of the rising stars of the new Israeli literature."-Joshua Cohen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Netanyahus
A piercing novel about life abroad in a cultural setting not one's own: Reut is an Israeli translator living in Paris with a French husband and their child. She's made sacrifices for her family but now feels a simmering discontent and estrangement that erupts at a festive dinner party with affluent, intellectual friends. During the sumptuous meal, she navigates a tangle of cultural codes with which she's never been fully at ease. This is a novel about big life choices that examines a woman's attitudes toward belonging to a man, to a culture, to a language. Where I Am is an intimate, witty book portraying a profoundly human yearning to stop everything, to lay down one's head, and to feel-if only for a moment-at home.
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Persons
Dana Shem-Ur lived in Paris for three years and obtained a master's degree in philosophy from the École Normale Supérieure. She translates from French, Italian, and Chinese into Hebrew.
Content
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Part I
- Aperitif
- Appetizers
- Plat Principal
- Intermezzo (Digestion and Cigarette Break)
- Cheese and Dessert
- Part II
- Tartine
- Taxi
- Charles De Gaulle Airport
- Airplane
- Part III
- Trattoria
- The First Night
- The First Morning
- The White City
- The Second Night
- Another Morning
