Novelist Orly Castel-Bloom has been called one of the 50 most influential women in Israel. Fearless, provocative, and original, she uses bitter satire to explore contemporary Israeli life. Her most recent novel, Human Parts, is an absurdist look at life under the intifada. When it was published in 2002, a literary critic from Ha’aretz said that it was not that Castel-Bloom had become a realist, but that reality had turned Castel-Bloomian. One of the most outstanding writers of the Eighties Generation, Castel-Bloom insists that the cold, rational language of politics and the media are not adequate to describe life amid terror. She will explore the delicate interplay between tragedy and satire.
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