HEAVY FEATHER REVIEW Reviews Youval Shimoni’s THE SALT LINE!

Here’s an excerpt from Yaron Peleg’s review of The Salt Line:

And so, the connections the novel makes between myth and epos are puzzling. The myth turns out to be false and heroism is absent altogether. And yet, The Salt Line extends nearly a thousand pages and unfolds in the shadow of momentous historical events—the Bolshevik Revolution, the Second World War, the Zionist revolution—that beg for meaning; a meaning that may be found in the inherent contradictions of this unheroic epic, a novel whose length defies the fleeting texts of our online age, a novel whose preoccupation with mythology challenges our postmodern skepticism.

Read the rest of the review HERE.

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