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There's No Place Like Home: Eshkol Nevo's "Homesick"

Published: July 5, 2017, 5 a.m.

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Eshkol Nevo\\u2019s first novel, Homesick, is the engrossing, interwoven story of an apartment community, told from about 8 different first-person perspectives, and a third-person omniscient narrator, as well. The novel was awarded the Book Publishers Association Gold Prize (2005), among other prizes. it was translated by Sondra Silverstein and published in English in 2009. Host Marcela Sulak reads two passages from Homesick on today\\u2019s episode.

Text:
Homesick by Nevo Eshkol. Translated by Sondra Silverstein. Vintage Books,2009

Music:
The Night Brings The Morning by The Bridge Project
Nikriz Pe\\u015frev by Derya T\\xfcrkan

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