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SOULS
Grisha's life spans over four centuries. Born in a 17th-century Jewish village, he has been living and dying, jumping from body to body and from one century to another constantly being reborn.
Horbitza, Venice, Fez, Dachau, Moscow, Jaffa.But what drives these endless reincarnations? Is it atonement for an ancient sin, unfulfilled love, or just purely random?
Or is it nonsense? Marina, Grisha's mother, thinks so. She barges into the story, with an overwhelming urge to reinterpret Grisha's so-called memories, to transform them into what she considers his "real" biography.
There is only one life, she insists, everything else is just a metaphor.
The two protagonists of Souls are locked in battle for the reader's heart. Who will prevail? Soul or body, fantasy or reality, the son, the mother?
This highly original and theatrical novel is rollicking, dramatic and deeply thoughtful -- a vivid, colorful carnival with exceptional narrative breadth and character development.
What does it mean to reincarnate? Has Grisha been in the shtetl, in the Italian canals, in the Moroccan medina?
His mother is the voice that says you don't have to actually die and be born again. We are each exiled from our childhood land, where we had a different voice, body, thoughts, and dreams.
We are all in metamorphosis.
Roy Chen is a writer, playwright, and translator based in Tel Aviv. Since 2007, he has served as the house playwright of Gesher Theater in Jaffa.
Chen has translated classic fiction into Hebrew from four languages, including the works of Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Chekhov, Molière, Anouilh, Robert Icke, and Stephen King.
In 2023, he published a new Hebrew translation of A. A. Milne's beloved classic Winnie-the-Pooh.
Or is it nonsense? Marina, Grisha's mother, thinks so. She barges into the story, with an overwhelming urge to reinterpret Grisha's so-called memories, to transform them into what she considers his "real" biography.
There is only one life, she insists, everything else is just a metaphor.
The two protagonists of Souls are locked in battle for the reader's heart. Who will prevail? Soul or body, fantasy or reality, the son, the mother?
This highly original and theatrical novel is rollicking, dramatic and deeply thoughtful -- a vivid, colorful carnival with exceptional narrative breadth and character development.
What does it mean to reincarnate? Has Grisha been in the shtetl, in the Italian canals, in the Moroccan medina?
His mother is the voice that says you don't have to actually die and be born again. We are each exiled from our childhood land, where we had a different voice, body, thoughts, and dreams.
We are all in metamorphosis.
Roy Chen is a writer, playwright, and translator based in Tel Aviv. Since 2007, he has served as the house playwright of Gesher Theater in Jaffa.
Chen has translated classic fiction into Hebrew from four languages, including the works of Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Chekhov, Molière, Anouilh, Robert Icke, and Stephen King.
In 2023, he published a new Hebrew translation of A. A. Milne's beloved classic Winnie-the-Pooh.
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Published 2025-11-27 by Keter |