Set in an upper-middle-class Tel Aviv apartment building, this best-selling and warmly acclaimed Israeli novel examines the interconnected lives of its residents, whose turmoils, secrets, unreliable confessions, and problematic decisions reveal a society in the midst of an identity crisis.
Born in Jerusalem in 1971,Eshkol Nevostudied copywriting at the Tirza Granot School and psychology at Tel Aviv University. Today, Nevo owns and co-manages the largest private creative writing school in Israel and is considered the mentor of many upcoming young Israeli writers. His novels have all been top bestsellers in Israel. His novelHomesick(Chatto & Windus, 2008) was a finalist for the prestigious Independent Foreign Fiction Prize,World Cup Wisheswas a finalist for the Kritikerpreis der Jury der Jungen Kritiker (Austria, 2011), andNeulandwas included in The Independent's list of Books of the Year in Translation (2014)
NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST
“Mesmerizing…this book and its conflicted apartment dwellers stayed
with me long after I finished reading.” —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK
REVIEW
“Smart and absorbing…Nevo shows us life’s complexities in a
thoroughly satisfying read.” —LIBRARY JOURNAL, *STARRED REVIEW*
“Eshkol Nevo, in his astoundingly moving new book, Three
Floors Up, brilliantly captures how the landscape of a marriage can
become tenuous and dark while parents struggle with children who
seem to need a little extra help. His three loosely interwoven
stories take place in an upper-middle-class apartment building in
Tel Aviv where neighbors observe one another quietly, grappling
with their own growing desperation.” —JERUSALEM POST
"Nevo (Neuland, 2014, etc.) is a bestselling Israeli author, and
his most recent book to be translated into English makes it easy to
understand why. His writing is compelling...[he] is a funny,
engaging writer." —KIRKUS REVIEWS
“Israeli bestseller Nevo (Neuland) returns with a transporting
novel about the furtive lives of three tenants in a suburban Tel
Aviv apartment building…Nevo’s narrators range from despicable to
endearing, and he handles each with a sure hand, resulting in a
multifaceted narrative that is easy to be carried away by.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“Best-selling Israeli novelist Nevo, his Hebrew fluidly translated
by Sondra Silverston, cleverly infuses these quotidian albeit
schadenfreude-inducing dramas with numerology (“everything is in
threes”), Freudian analysis (the “three floors up” of id, ego,
superego), the power of secrets (plus the greater threat of
revenge), and the literary necessity for confessions (“if there is
no one to listen–there is no story”).” —BOOKLIST
“The novella-length chapters offer a compelling critique of Israeli
society. But Nevo’s chief strength lies in his ability to fashion
wonderfully relatable characters whose troubled voices, as well as
mysterious and impulsive moods, render the work a
page-turner…Nevo’s talent for embedding telling character traits
and cultural anecdotes through quick one-liners is perhaps his
greatest asset. The prose sings in places, and Three Floors Up is
difficult to put down.” —JEWISH NEWS SERVICE
"Israeli author Eshkol Nevo’s novel explores the social and
cultural fabric of Israel through three tenants on three separate
floors of an apartment building in Tel Aviv. Their individual
stories and struggles are braided together with tight, terse prose,
forming a cohesive picture of the broader society in which they
reside." —WORLD LITERATURE TODAY
“A brilliant novelist, Eshkol Nevo vividly depicts the grinding
effects of social and political ills played out in the psyche of
these flawed, compelling characters, often in unexpected and
explosive ways.” —BOOKREPORTER
“Lively, tripartite novel by Eshkol Nevo, a highly admired Israeli
author…Nevo creates three compulsive narrators, three unsparingly
candid monologues, three stories that expose the psyches of people
caught at critical points in their lives…Perceptive and compelling,
Three Floors Up plays with the form of the novel itself and keeps
the reader absorbed in its sets of triads.” —JEWISH BOOK
COUNCIL
“Three Floors Up by Israeli novelist Eshkol Nevo offers an
intriguing and layered view into life in Tel Aviv. The novel
centers on three families living on separate floors of an apartment
building on the outskirts of the city. Through the lives and
interwoven stories of the three families, Nevo presents a broad and
complex portrait of Israeli society.” —SIGNATURE READS
“A brilliant novelist, Eshkol Nevo vividly depicts the grinding
effects of social and political ills played out in the psyche of
these flawed, compelling characters, often in unexpected and
explosive ways.” —JEWISH REVIEW MEDIA
"Eshkol Nevo is a fascinating story teller who gives the reader a
broad and diverse picture of Israeli society.” —Amos Oz,
internationally bestselling author of A Tale of Love and
Darkness
“Recognizable characters and situations make Eshkol Nevo’s newest
novel, Three Floors Up, an economical yet masterful invention
of three households in a suburban Tel Aviv building...Written
simply but imaginatively, translated fluidly by Sondra Silverston,
each story is an evening’s reading because you won’t want to stop.”
—AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD
“Eshkol Nevo is a brilliant literary chemist who succeeds in
extracting from daily life’s most mundane events, the deepest
crystallized essence of the contemporary Israeli psyche.” —Etgar
Keret
“Eshkol Nevo writes beautifully, funnily, and wisely about men and
women…Friendship, envy, love, misery, endurance—he captures the
lot.” —Roddy Doyle
"This is a thought-provoking book, but it remains very accessible
and fun to read. Although each section can be read independently,
it is anything but a loose collection of stories. There is a
uniform atmosphere of mystery and foreboding, with a barely
concealed threat of violence. Readers will need to read the novel
in its entirety to fully appreciate the gradual build-up of unease,
while the ending provides a solution for some, but not for
all." —NECESSARY FICTION
"...gripping. Pain, lust, loneliness, nostalgia, bitterness, and
maternal love are all locked in an intricately choreographed dance
in this wonderful collection of interwoven stories.” —KVELLER
“The novels of Eshkol Nevo, son of ex Israeli PM Levi Eshkol, rise
above simple storytelling—-his creative approach is
multi-dimensional, his narrative multi-layered and his characters
are always colourful and memorable.” —THE SWANSEA BAY
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