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Lily la Tigresse
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A sensational comedic novel from a sharp-penned (or sharp-fingered) Israeli author spinning a fantastical tale of a lovelorn obese woman and her simple but beautiful prostitute friend in hiding from her love-fisted protector. The first section in particular delivers some stylish and compulsively readable antics, riddled with dark comedy, and those ice-bucket moments of bleak (in)comprehension about the state of the Israeli female experience. The second section ups the fantastical with its population of tigers and the narrator’s metamorphosis into an Asian feline, sinking a little into the less readable towards its climax, however still resplendent in one of the prettiest book covers designed by Dalkey in recent years. A thoroughly magnificent translation all round.
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August 18, 2014
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August 18, 2014
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September 1, 2014
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September 2, 2014
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"“Can reality be so precise, pouring itself into the tortuous receptacle of a person’s expectations and submissively accepting its shape?”"
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September 5, 2014
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March 6, 2022
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Sep 13, 2014 05:11PM
I can't fully appreciate the cover's prettiness in the thumbnail here. I am guessing it looks different on the paperback.
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Yes, the purple splodges feel like little tiles to the touch, and the backpage is a visual belter too.
Stylish review with its own sharp-fingered moments.
Is purple significant to the story? I ask because it seems to be the only commonality between the English and French covers...
Manny wrote: "I think I prefer the French cover."Hahaha. Purple doesn't have much bearing over the story, nor do lollipops. (Well-built naked women do).
