Three Floors Up, Eshkol Nevo
Three Floors Up, Eshkol Nevo
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Three Floors Up

Author: Eshkol Nevo, Sondra Silverston

Narrator: Neil Shah, Deepti Gupta

Unabridged: 9 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/10/2017


Synopsis

Set in an upper-middle-class Tel Aviv apartment building, this bestselling and warmly acclaimed Israeli novel examines the interconnected lives of its residents, whose turmoils, secrets, unreliable confessions, and problematic decisions reveal a society in the midst of an identity crisis.

On the first floor, Arnon, a tormented retired officer who fought in the First Intifada, confesses to an army friend with a troubled military past how his obsession about his young daughter's safety led him to lose control and put his marriage in peril. Above Arnon lives Hani, known as "the widow," whose husband travels the world for his lucrative job while she stays at home with their two children, increasingly isolated and unstable. When her brother-in-law suddenly appears at their door begging her to hide him from loan sharks and the police, she agrees in spite of the risk to her family, if only to bring some emotional excitement into her life. On the top floor lives a former judge, Devora. Eager to start a new life in her retirement, Devora joins a social movement, desperately tries to reconnect with her estranged son, and falls in love with a man who isn't what he seems.

About Eshkol Nevo

Eshkol Nevo, born in Jerusalem in 1971, is one of Israel's most successful living writers. His novels have all been bestsellers in Israel and published widely in translation. His novel Homesick was long-listed for the 2009 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize; World Cup Wishes was a finalist for the 2011 Kritikerpreis der Jury der Jungen Kritiker (Austria); Neuland was included in the Independent's 2014 Books of the Year in Translation; and Three Floors Up will be adapted for film by the acclaimed Italian director Nanni Moretti in 2020. Nevo owns and co-manages the largest private creative writing school in Israel and is a mentor to many up-and-coming young Israeli writers.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dovilė

Oujeeeeeeeeeeeee, koks geras tonas metų pradžioj paduotas! Tikiuosi, kad 2024-aisiais lankys daugiau tokių nuostabuolių! Teisybės vardan reik pasakyt, kad Eshkol Nevo lankysis Vilniaus knygų mugėje ir aš jį kalbinsiu, tad pradėjau ruoštis. Tačiau, kad bus šitaip gerai, kad šitaip ištirpsiu tekste, k......more

Goodreads review by Natalie

“For you, everything’s a story, eh? It’s just too bad that for me, it’s real life” This slow-revealing, insightful Israeli novel was one that took me by surprise. Set in an upper-middle-class Tel Aviv apartment building, this bestselling and warmly acclaimed Israeli novel examines the interconnected l......more

Goodreads review by Paolo

Non mi sarei mai aspettato una lettura tanto appagante da Eshkol Nevo, di cui non avevo apprezzato per niente il pur fortunato "La simmetria dei desideri". Sarà perché 7 anni sono tanti nella vita di un uomo e scrittore a quell'età (Nevo è tra i quaranta ed i cinquanta), ma tra quell'opera e questo "......more

Goodreads review by Jill

Three Floors Up is a confessional—three confessionals, to be precise. On the first floor, a retired army officer, clearly suffering from PTSD, relates a tale to an unseen army friend, about his young daughter who is left in the care of a possibly dementia-afflicted neighbor. When his little girl, Of......more