Anna Voltaggio

1 month ago | worldliteraturetoday.org | Maria Moran |Tomas Moniz |Jason M. Thornberry |Anna Voltaggio

Lilach Galil’s 2009 novel, Betsilo (In its shadow), is a polyphonic novel told by the six main characters. Rona is a poet and a literary editor whose father, Michael, died when she was a child. Reading a memoir by a Holocaust survivor, Mr. Zimmerman, she feels that something is amiss and makes an appointment to meet with him. The excerpt is a description of their meeting. Unbeknownst to her, her boyfriend Idan is Eliezer’s grandson. This excerpt is at the core of the book.