Next Door Neighbor: Eshkol Nevos "Three Floors Up"

Published: Nov. 8, 2017, 7 a.m.

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Set in a Tel Aviv apartment building, Eshkol Nevo\\u2019s newest novel,\\xa0Three Floors Up, examines a society in crisis, through the turmoils, secrets, unreliable confessions, and problematic decisions of the building\\u2019s residents.

On the first floor, Arnon, a tormented retired officer who fought in the First Intifada, confesses to an army friend how his obsession with his daughter\\u2019s safety led him to lose control and put his marriage in peril. Above Arnon lives Hani, whose husband travels the world for work while she stays at home with their two children, increasingly isolated and unstable. On the top floor lives a former judge, Devora. Retired and eager to start a new life, she joins a social movement, tries to reconnect with her estranged son, and falls in love with a man who isn\\u2019t what he seems.

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Three Floors Up.\\xa0Sondra Silverston. Otherpress, Oct. 2017.

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