Gilad Elbom
Autor/a de Scream Queens of the Dead Sea: Sex! Heavy Metal! Linguistics!
Obres de Gilad Elbom
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1968
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- Israel (birth)
- Llocs de residència
- Israel
Los Angeles, California, USA
Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA - Educació
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem (English ∙ Arabic)
Otis College of Art and Design (Writing)
University of North Dakota - Professions
- nurse
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 2
- Membres
- 30
- Popularitat
- #449,942
- Valoració
- 2.9
- Ressenyes
- 2
- ISBN
- 4
At work on the evening shift, Gilad has seven patients under his care. Each patient has his own issues, but, at the same time, each individual’s issues seem to be indicative of further problems within Israel’s greater society.
The story was fun to read except for some tangents that for me became excruciating. I kept wanting to return to the main storyline. Perhaps the author had a bit too much to say, some of which didn’t interest me at all.
Nevertheless, this is an impressive work for a first novel and an interesting way to introduce Israeli culture to the world at large. The Boston Review says this book "reads like a version of Catch-22 written by Chuck Palahniuk." I think that's a very apt description of this novel. Like parts of Catch-22, some lines of Elbom’s novel were laugh out loud funny, and, like the works of Chuck Palahniuk, I did not complete the novel without finding something to gross me out.… (més)