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SHALOM
INDIA HOUSING SOCIETY
Esther David
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Shalom
India Housing Society is a fictional place in Ahmedabad,
Gujarat. Set in 2002, after the communal carnage
that took place post-Godhra, it revolves around
the dilemmas of the last of the Bene Israeli Jews
in the city.
Should they leave? Should they continue to stay
in India? Do they belong to Israel, their spiritual
fatherland or to India, their motherland? Strongly
rooted in Ahmedabad, the shadow of the recent violence
and of the Arab-Israeli conflict in Israel brings
home the vulnerability of a miniscule community,
already shrinking rapidly.
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ESTHER DAVID,
well-loved and well-known author of
The Walled City
and The Book of Esther
brings us yet another memorable novel. |
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