Dolly City

Name: Dolly City
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ISBN: 9781564786104

ISBN-10: 1564786102

ISBN-13: 9781564786104

Edition: 2010

Authors: Orly Castel-Bloom, Dalya Bilu, Karen Grumberg

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" Dolly City -a city without a base, without a past, without an infrastructure. Themost demented city in the world." In the midst of a futuristic-primitive metropolis, the accumulation of all our urban nightmares, Doctor Dolly (certified by theUniversity of Katmandu) finds a newborn baby in a black plastic bag, and decidesto become a mother. Overcome by unfamiliar maternal urges, Dolly dispenseswith her private lab of rare diseases and turns all her surgical passion onto herson. Ceaselessly cutting and sewing, Dolly is the scalpel-wielding version of theall-too-familiar Jewish Mother archetype, forever operating upon her son with destructive, invasive love. In this grotesque satire of war…

Book details

List price: $13.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Publication date: 10/5/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 167
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Orly Castel-Bloomwas born in TelAviv in 1960 andis a leading voicein contemporaryHebrew literature.She is the author of eleven booksand was twice the recipient of thePrime Minister's Prize.

Dalya Bilu lives in Jerusalem andhas been awarded a number ofprizes for her translation work,including the Israeli Ministry ofCulture Prize for Translation, andthe Jewish Book Council Award forHebrew-English Translation.