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A Man Lies Dreaming, by Lavie Tidhar
Perhaps it’s fitting that I read Hannah Tennant-Moore’ essay in The Paris Review about the merits of reading literature that disgusts and repulses us. Her words helped me through Lavie Tidhar’s disturbing work, A Man Lies Dreaming. The other thing that helped me through the scenes of, for lack of a better term, unorthodox sexuality and depictions of anti-Semitism was Tidhar’s virtuosity with ideas and genre. Not every reader will make it through this book, but those who do will be rewarded with a meditation on story and reality that will haunt for a very long time...
Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a copy of this book from Edelweiss for review consideration.
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