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Entry kali nih pasal novel English yang saya baru jeh habis baca. The Finkler Question, written by Howard Jacobson. Anddd ini hanya lah pandangan peribadi saya semata mata.
Okehh there are three main characters, Julian Treslove a non-Jewish people, Sam Finkler a Jewish philosopher, and Libor Sevcik a Jewish Czech.
So, my first impression is, author nih mesti nak ceritakan serba sedikit pasal Jew stuffs. Anddd hell yeahh, its true!
This book is full of Jew information, that gonna makes people to understand them and to sympathy with the ASHAMED Jewish that being attacked by the Anti-Semites which mostly are referred to Arabians/Muslims.
No offense, bukan niat nak bersikap racism tapi, i hate the fact that "some people" are trying to brainwash other people with untruth and bias facts.
So here, i share a little bit of lines of the story that i'd read.
Vandalism. It was licensed hereabouts. Just about everyone who visited the Abbey Road Studios wrote messages on the outside walls. Mostly these were good-natured - So-and-so loves so-and-so, We all live in a yellow submarine, Rest in peace, John! - but one day when Treslove was passing he noticed a new aerosoled graffito in Arabic script. Perhaps it too was a message of love - Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do - but what if it was a message of hate - Imagine there's no Israel, Imagine there's no Jew...?
That he had no reason to suppose any such thing, he knew. Which was partly why he kept his suspicions to himself. But the Arab script look angry. It was like a scribble over everything else that had been written on the walls, a refutation of the spirit of the place.
Or did he imagine that, too? -page192
"And he picked a fight with them? What did he say?"
"Nothing much. He accused them of stealing someone else's country..."
She paused.
"And?"
"And practising apartheid..."
"And?"
"And slaughtering women and children."
"And?"
"There is no and. That's all."
"And then what happened?"
"And then I knocked his hat off."
"You knocked a Jew's hat off."
"Is that so terrible?"
"Jesus Christ, of course it's terrible. You don't do that to anyone, least of all a Jew."
"Least of all a Jew! What? Are we a protected species now or something? These are people who bulldoze Palestinian villages. What's a hat?"
"Did you hurt him?"
"Not enough."
"This is a racist assault, Immanuel."
"Dad, how can it be a racist assault when they're the racist?"
"I'm not even going to answer that."
"Do I look like a racist? Look at me."
"You look like a fucking little anti-Semite."
"How can I be an anti-Semite? I'm a Jew." -page189,190
While these lines show how Jews were the victims of terrorism, Jews are the innocent ones.
And then she told him, without tears, without false sentiment, that her twenty-two-year-old grandson had been stabbed in the face and blinded by an Algerian man who shouted "God is great" in Arabic, and "Death to all Jews". -page153
Eventually it became a clear to him that Gaza wasn't the problem, the problem was the 'Boycott'.
'The Boycott' was a shorthand term for the Comprehensive Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israeli Universities and Institutions. -page142,143
"People hate Jews because they hate Jews, Libor. They don't need an excuse. The trigger isn't the violence in Gaza." page156
"I feared you were going to say we get what we deserve. That it is my grandson's fault that he is blinded. The logic of our film director friend. A Jew dispossesses an Arab in Palestine, another must be blinded in London. What the Jewish people sow, the Jewish people will reap. I don't think I hear you saying that." -page214
The victims of that criminality were not only the Palestinians, but Jews themselves.
-page233
And there's a trick in this story. There's a character, Julian Treslove, that is too fond on Jewish stuff/things/everything.
Yet i agreed, the romanticism can't be denied.
"Look, as far as I'm concerned you're perfect as you are," she told him. "I love you perplexed. This is what you keep saying you want."
"You sure you love me perplexed?"
"I adore you perplexed."
"And if we have a son?"
"We aren't planning to have a son."
"But if we do?"
"That would be different."
"Ah, so what would be good for him, would not be good for me. Already, there are competing criteria of maleness in this house."
"What maleness got to do with it?" -page 195
"My neshomeleh," he said. "It means my little darling. It comes from neshomeh, meaning soul."
"Thank you," she said. "I fear you're going to teach me how to be Jewish."
"I will if you like, bubeleh." -page 160
And, there's few lines that I found it quite interesting and some are funny. Haha
"It was on the credit cards she'd stolen from you - doh!"
"Don't doh me. You know I hate being dohed."
Finkler patted his arm. " It was on the credit cards she'd stolen from you - no doh."
-page 66
Mamzer is Yiddish for bastard. Treslove can't stop using the word.
Even of himself. Am I lucky Mamzer or what am I? he asks. -page 174
It is terrible to lose a woman you have loved, but it is no less a loss to have no woman to take into your arms and cradle before tragedy strikes... -page6
Lastly I believe, if this book gonna make into a movie, it'll become one of those gross movies I'd ever hate. Too much of sex scenes and sex thoughts. Urghhh =='
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*I just elaborate the review I did in my ig*
And i remind again, this is only my own perspective.
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