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Evacuation

Evacuation

Raphaël Jerusalmy

  • awardShortlisted, JQ Wingate Literary Prize, United Kingdom, 2019
  • Translated by Penny Hueston

    Naor, a young filmmaker, is driving with his mother. He tells her about being in Tel Aviv after a recent evacuation.

    Everyone else has fled, except for Naor and Yaël, his artist girlfriend, and Saba, his grandfather, who is a writer. The occasional missile explodes nearby. But Saba refuses to leave the place he loves. And Yaël has her own secret aspirations.

    In defiance of the war, they scavenge an existence and explore the mysteries of their beloved city—until the unthinkable happens.

    In Evacuation, a novel of suspense, a profound tale about our choices under pressure, about love, for each other and for a place, about death, and about finding a way to peace, Raphaël Jerusalmy is at the height of his powers.

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    About the Author

    Raphaël Jerusalmy holds degrees from the École Normale Supérieure and the Sorbonne. He made his career in the Israeli military intelligence services before working in the humanitarian and educational fields. He is now a novelist and antiquarian book dealer in Tel Aviv. His first novel, Saving Mozart, is also published by Text.

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    About the Translator

    Penny Hueston’s translations from French include novels by Emmanuelle Pagano (One Day I’ll Tell You Everything), Patrick Modiano (Little Jewel), Sarah Cohen-Scali (Max) and Raphaël Jerusalmy (Evacuation). She has translated six books by Marie Darrieussecq—All the Way, Men, Being Here: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker, Our Life in the Forest, ...

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    Extent:
    176pp
    Format:
    Paperback
    Text publication date:
    26 February 2018
    ISBN:
    9781925603378
    AU Price:
    $19.99
    NZ Price:
    $24.00
    Themes:
    acts of resistance, love,
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    Praise for Raphaël Jerusalmy
    andEvacuation

    ‘In this marvellous book, Raphael Jerusalmy shows us that, despite the destructive madness of men, a few beautiful spirits, angel-poets, will always remain.’

    ‘An elegant examination of the choices we make and the individual peace we seek…Evacuation is a short but meaningful voyage of discovery, an Israeli road trip packed with musings on war, love, death, and art.’

    ‘Like the famous photograph of the string quartet amid the ruins of Sarajevo, his [Jerusalmy’s] book celebrates the persistence of art in times of chaos, and like another recent novella of the Middle East, Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West, it combines a jolting realism with the timeless quality of fables.’

    ‘A bright, light-struck novel…Jerusalmy reveals all the strangeness of an emblematic place torn by political, artistic and religious currents. It is a crisp and oddly memorable book.’

    ‘A gently observed and deeply felt tale of three disparate characters living through unusual times.‘

    ‘Jewel-like.’

    ‘Suspenseful and moving.’

    Evacuation is no typical war novel: spare yet compelling, and extraordinarily moving in unexpected places, it challenges those who glance impassively at a televised war to step into the experience of those nearby.’

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    • Evacuation
      ebook
      ISBN: 9781925626414
      26 February 2018
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