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  • Published: 27 February 2014
  • ISBN: 9781448138852
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 624

Neuland





A bold, ambitious and beautifully romantic novel – a search for a father, for love, and for identity

Dori’s father has gone travelling in South America and, suffering from some kind of breakdown, following the death of his wife, he goes missing. Dori sets out to find him, leaving his wife and young son at home in Israel.

Inbar is escaping from her life – from the grief that she can’t shake after her brother’s death, from the boyfriend she doesn’t love – and impulsively sets out for South America. While she’s there she meets a man who is searching for his father…


In his most ambitious novel to date, Eshkol Nevo weaves a beautiful love story with two tales: the story of the wandering Jews who came to their Promised Land in the wake of the Second World War, embodied by Inbar’s grandmother Lily’s narrative of her sea journey over from Poland, and the story of a new generation of wandering Israelis who leave again to go backpacking, perhaps hoping that the distance will allow them to see their homeland more clearly. Neuland is a romantic adventure, a search for a father that leads to love, and a quest for an understanding of identity and for second chances. Is it ever possible to start again? Nevo has produced a daring, epic novel that asks profound questions, but the truth and warmth of his writing make it all-consuming and irresistibly loveable.

  • Published: 27 February 2014
  • ISBN: 9781448138852
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 624

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Praise for Neuland

The kind of compulsive reading that happens only with good books

La Stampa

Eshkol Nevo writes beautifully, funnily and wisely about men and women... Friendship, envy, love, misery, endurance - he captures the lot

RODDY DOYLE

A poetic creation that celebrates everything that might have been if things had gone differently

Corriere della Sera

Tender and insightful. Eshkol Nevo is a delightful writer

FRANCESCA SEGAL

With this book, Eshkol Nevo attains maturity and becomes one of the best writers we have

Yedioth Ahronoth

A fascinating novel, a combination of Utopia and dystopia - but above all, it is a moving story about one family, about love and loss and loneliness

AMOS OZ

By far his most ambitious to date... Nevo manages to tell two compelling love stories, introduce a wide-ranging cast of characters, and bring to life their longing for renewal

David Herman, Jewish Chronicle

Studded with wrenching emotions and original ideas... Neuland does what a novel can: it helps to clear the roadblocks in the mind

Boyd Tonkin, Independent

An immensely powerful exploration of love, grief, 'what ifs?' and the forces that bind and break families and nations

Ben Felsenburg, Metro

Nevo has an effortless knack for storytelling and, through his poetic prose, perfectly captures the moral, physical and philosophical dilemmas each character faces

UK Press Syndication

Neuland is a haunting story seething with metatexts… A sophisticated novel that function on multiple parameters

Sarla Langdon, Bay

Nevo is a master of plot

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Guardian
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