No Exit
Noah Richler talks to new Israeli and Palestinian authors about their work, 50 years after the foundation of the Israeli state.
4: The One Facing Us. Israeli novelist Ronit Matalon is of French-speaking Egyptian-Jewish heritage, and her exquisite, delicately written novel The
One Facing Us is a loving enquiry into a Levantine family as mysterious and dispersed as her own, from Israel to Africa and America. A celebration of the primacy of family over politics, it is also a contemplation of what we cannot ever know about ourselves or our families, even when confronted with the scrapbook photos Matalon uses as clues in her beguiling text. With readings by Alison Pettitt.