MGSDII Salon Members are invited to join this special one-time book club event with MGSDII Israeli Visiting Professor, Dr. Dekel Shay Schory.

Dekel is a senior editor at Kinneret-Zmora-Dvir, one of the leading publishing houses in Israel and teaches contemporary Israeli Literature at Hebrew University and Ben Gurion University.

We will read the Israeli best-seller, Stockholm, an ingeniously plotted dark comedy by Noa Yedlin (Kirkus, Starred Review) about aging and friendship, following a tight-knit circle as they attempt to hide the death of one of their best friends so he can win the Nobel Prize for Economics.

Read the book, then join us as Dekel leads a book club discussion and talks about Israeli literary trends.

Friday, March 1 at 10:30 AM. Refreshments will be served.

 Space is very limited.  The event address will be sent out prior to the gathering.

Israeli author Noa Yedlin is a bestselling author, the recipient of the Sapir Prize (the Israeli Man Booker) and the Prime Minister’s Literature Award. Her deviously clever black comedy takes on death and the ties that linger. The protagonist, Avishay, a front-runner for the Nobel Prize in Economics, dies eight days before the announcement. Avishay’s four closest friends know the committee won’t award the prize to a dead person, and they vow to keep his death a secret until the big announcement. Yedlin puts her characters through the wringer with nonstop confrontations, which are distressing to them and hilarious to the reader. At the same time, she asks probing questions about the nature of friendship and mortality.

Dr. Dekel Shay Schory
(Hebrew University and Ben Gurion University)
The Gloria and Rod Stone Visiting Professorship
SDSU Department of English & Comparative Literature