The Holocaust Novel From Israel That America Can't Handle
Tags: Israel News, Jewish World "And the Rat Laughed" is an exquisitely wrought meditation on the present and future of Holocaust memory in Israel after the survivors are gone. Integrating story, legend, poetry, dream, science fiction and diary, Semel's novel begins in 1999 and pivots on testimony given by a nameless Tel Aviv grandmother to her 12-year-old granddaughter interviewing her for a school project. When she was 5, the grandmother was hidden in a potato pit by an anti-Semitic Polish couple who were paid to do so. The eponymous rat whom she befriends is her sole companion in the darkness...
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Tags: Companion, Darkness, Diary, Dream Science, Granddaughter, Grandmother, Holocaust, Holocaust Memory, Holocaust Survivors, Israel News, Jewish World, Meditation, Novel, Pivots, Polish Couple, Science Fiction, Semel, Tel Aviv, Testimony, X22