Dolly City / Orly Castel-Bloom ; translated by Dalya Bilu ; afterword by Karen Grumberg.
2010
PJ5054.C37 D6413 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
Dolly City / Orly Castel-Bloom ; translated by Dalya Bilu ; afterword by Karen Grumberg.
Author
Castel-Bloom, Orly, 1960-
Uniform Title
Doli siáši. English
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
ISBN
9781564786104 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1564786102 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1564786102 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication Details
Champaign [Ill.] : Dalkey Archive Press, 2010.
Language
English
Language Note
Translated from Hebrew.
Description
167 p. ; 21 cm.
Call Number
PJ5054.C37 D6413 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
892.4/36
Summary
"The accumulation of all our urban nightmares, Doctor Dolly (certified by the University of Katmandu) finds a newborn baby in a black pastic bag, and decides to become a mother. Overcome by unfamiliar maternal urges, Dolly dispenses with her private lab of rare diseases and turns all her surgical passion onto her son. Ceaselessly cutting and sewing, Dolly is the scalpel-wielding version of the all-too-familiar Jewish mother archetype, forever operating upon her son with destructive, invasive love. In this grotesque satire of war and the defensive measures taken to survive it, Orly Castel-Bloom ... turns her own scalpel upon that most holy of instititions, the myth of motherhood--and its implications in the life of a nation"--From publisher description.
Note
Translated from Hebrew.
Originally published: Tel-Aviv : Zmora Bitan, 1992.
Originally published: Tel-Aviv : Zmora Bitan, 1992.
Added Author
Bilu, Dalya.
Series
Hebrew literature series.
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