Dolly City

Orly Castel-Bloom, Dalya Bilu, Karen Grumberg

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Dalkey Archive Press
11 January 2011

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation

Series: Hebrew Literature Series

Gruesome, unhinged, and hilarious, Dolly City is widely recognized as one of the most disconcerting-and brilliant-literary works ever to come out of Israel.

""Dolly City-a city without a base, without a past, without an infrastructure. The most demented city in the world."" In the midst of a futuristic-primitive metropolis, the accumulation of all our urban nightmares, Doctor Dolly (certified by the University of Katmandu) finds a newborn baby in a black plastic 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, one of Israel's most provocative and original writers, turns her own scalpel upon that most holy of institutions, the myth of motherhood-and its implications in the life of a nation.

By: Orly Castel-Bloom
Afterword by: Karen Grumberg
Translated by: Dalya Bilu
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 226g
ISBN: 9781564786104
ISBN 10: 1564786102
Series: Hebrew Literature Series
Pages: 167
Publication Date: 11 January 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Orly Castel-Bloom is a leading voice in Hebrew literature today. Her postmodern classic Dolly City has been included in UNESCO's Collection of Representative Works, and was nominated in 2007 as one of the ten most important books since the creation of the state of Israel. An Egyptian Novel won the Sapir Prize in 2015. Castel-Bloom's books have been published in 14 languages.