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The Other World in "The World of the End"
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Length:
9 minutes
Released:
Aug 23, 2017
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Podcast episode
Description
These hot weeks of summer, host Marcela Sulak will be suggesting some good beach reading, such as Ofir Touche Gafla’s novel The World of the End, translated by Mitch Ginsburg, and published in English 2015. The book won the 2005 Geffen Award for the best fantasy/science fiction novel of the year and the 2006 Kugel Award for Hebrew literature. Gafla teaches creative writing in the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem. Music:A Musical Joke K522 by Mozart Text: Gafla, Ofir Touché. The World of the End. Translated by Mitch Ginsburg. Tom Doherty Associates, 2015.
Released:
Aug 23, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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