Yehoshua Opens His Heart

Well, thanks for all the comments. As is evident, the interviewer, that is me, is not making any comments, but just listening to what an Israeli writer has to say. Freedom of expression, didn`t one say? In this turbulent times, it is nice to have different viewspoints and it is quite nice that the debates are taking us to different planes. Well...

Open Heart sold like hotcakes in the US. Yehoshua said that is where his biggest market is. “That is because my novels are a combination of American — or you can call it capitalistic — Western realism and eastern mysticism. Of course, lakhs of expatriate Jews in America are my greatest readers,” he said.


Let us hear some truth speak by this man- at least bollywood admits that it follows a MASALA!!

“He didn’t look like a Booker of the Bookers award-winning litterateur, but resembled a Mafiosi flanked by gun-wielding commandoes, who were, however, protecting him from Khomeini`s fatwa. Notwithstanding the security, I could talk to him for quite a while. And despite his appearance I was please to learn that he had mellowed down a lot — Rushdie is not that arrogant man we have so far seen on the screen and in the books and articles he had penned,” observed Yehoshua

Rushdie does not come out as an arrogant man at all!!! I was not surprised to hear this coming from someone who writes fiction about a country he never visited and then make it appear to us that it mirrored some part of our reality!!!

Dear Sunil

I really enjoyed reading this profile and have linked to this article on my blog. Thanks for writing it.

http://bookcoolie.blogspot.com/2005/06/abraham-yehoshua.html

sincerely

[“There are many impressive writers in our country. Most importantly, feminist writing has gathered pace for the simple reason that now the female population in our country is 65 per cent, whereas in my childhood women were a mere 10 per cent of our population. ]

hmm....sounds intriguing. (paging saminasha :) )

[You are right,’ I told him. Look at Algeria. The country stands as a cruel testimony of racial and religious violence. Though unjustifiable, one can understand if Aryans killed Nazis in Europe, or Jews and Arabs are fighting in West Asia, or even your Hindu fundamentalists are targeting the Muslim minority. But in Algeria, Muslim fanatics are killing their own brothers and sisters. It’s a totally maddening world, I should tell you,” Yehoshua sighed. ]

Whose concern is this? The para starts with ...`I told him`.....and ends in `Yehoshua sighed`...is that supposed to be delibrate?

p.s. There is no term like `Orthodox Muslims`! This orthodoxy and protestantism is restrained only to Christianity. A person is a Muslim, or he is not.

regards