Dinner at the Center of the Earth

from nivramkoorb

Nathan Englander is an excellent writer and this book is a welcome addition to his body of work. However, I enjoyed this least of his 4 books but it was an interesting read. It deals with the Israeli conflict and it does so over different time frames with different characters. The writing is exce...

from SqueakyChu

What?!! After carefully noting who did what where and when throughout the entire book, I finished the last sentence of this novel and have no idea of what I just read. That is not to say I didn't like it. What I took from this book was that you can't believe what you read and you can trust no one...

from asxz

I thought this was very fine. Perhaps the most Israeli novel I have ever read, combining a deep love of the country with real ambivalence for the things such love demands of its people. It's a bold narrative choice to write a number of chapters from the POV of Ariel Sharon... while he was in perm...

from wearyhobo

The disparate strands never coalesced for me and bugged me rather than propelling me forward to see how they would resolve. This isn't one I'm giving two objective stars to because I think its take on Israel and Palestine would appeal to a lot of people, and Englander can obviously write a senten...

from miss.mesmerized

Berlin 2002. A young Palestinian helps out a Canadian businessman to sail on one of the lakes. The more often they meet, the more intimate they get. Paris, the same year. Prisoner Z falls in love with a waitress. A young woman who turns out to be a super-rich daughter with unlimited opportunities...