Almost Dead: A Novel by Assaf Gavron

Author:Assaf Gavron
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Israel, Palestinian Arabs, Political, General, Fiction - General, Hebrew Novel And Short Story, Thrillers, Terrorism, Fiction
ISBN: 9780061984044
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2010-08-15T07:00:00+00:00

The day after I was discharged I appeared on Noah’s Ark. My memory of it is much fresher for the simple reason that I’ve watched the tape of the show a dozen times. Like a wound you’re dying to scratch, from time to time I can’t stop myself and I stick it on–and then regret it. It swamps me with memories.

The morning I came out, a girl who described herself as a researcher called me, then put me through to Tommy Musari himself. I haven’t had much time to watch TV in recent years but even I know who Tommy Musari is. Even I couldn’t avoid his all-conquering smile and triumphantly gleaming glass eye after Friday night dinners at my parents’ or Duchi’s father’s or (before September 11th) her mother’s. Not one of the three living rooms that hosted family meals on Friday nights (when we couldn’t duck them altogether) managed to avoid one or the other of Musari’s shows over the years–A Little Bit of Musari, Most Musari, The Nation’s Musari. Musari, I should say, happens to mean ‘moral’ in Hebrew: hence the endless terrible puns. But even I knew that the jewel in the crown was Noah’s Ark. It seemed that everyone in Israel except me watched Noah’s Ark, the show that brought together a left-wing widow and a right-wing widow, or a settler and a Tel Aviv resident, or an army dissenter and a general, a cynic and a patriot, a celebrity and a destitute woman. Everyone watched it, left and right, east and west, rich and poor, just like their adverts said they did. Duchi watched it. In Time’s Arrow people discussed it over lunch. Talia Tenne said that the show was even popular in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon. So when Tommy Musari himself invited me on to his show, I appreciated the importance of it. And I said no.

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