Lazaretto is a novel written by the Israeli author Shay K. Azoulay, published in 2019 by Pardes Publishing.[1] Inspired by Albert Camus's The Plague, the novel takes place in the near future, where the city of Tel Aviv is cut off from the rest of Israel and its residents are forced to fend for themselves.[2] A review in Haaretz described the novel as “an ambitious, high-tension novel, seeped in paranoia... Lazaretto is a disturbing and stirring dystopia which haunted me while I was reading it and even after I'd finished.”[3] The novel was also named "Book of the Year" by LaIsha magazine and dubbed "the novel that predicted the pandemic"[4]
 Cover of first edition | |
| Author | Shay K. Azoulay |
|---|---|
| Original title | לזארטו |
| Translator | Shay K. Azoulay |
| Cover artist | Kristina Mordukhovich |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Publisher | Pardes Publishing |
Publication date | 2019 |
| Publication place | Israel |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 233 |
| ISBN | 9781618384997 |
References
edit- ^ Lazaretto, Pardes Publishing (in Hebrew)
- ^ Lazaretto, Shay K. Azoulay
- ^ Lazaretto: In This Novel the "State of Tel Aviv" Becomes a Dystopian Reality - Omri Herzog, Haaretz, 20 January 2020 (in Hebrew)
- ^ "Lazaretto - The Novel that Predicted the Pandemic" Maya Levin, LaIsha, p. 51, 14 September 2020.
External links
edit- Lazaretto - at The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature.
- First chapter of Lazaretto
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