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Review by Steffi30 -- The Expelled by Mois Benarroch
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2 out of 4 stars
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The Expelled
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Mois Benarroch
I read the book The Expelled by Mois Benarroch. It's a story within a story within yet a third story. The main character, who is the narrator, is never actually named. He is a Jewish Moroccan writer living in Israel with his wife. The story starts with him coming back from a friend's house by bus. On the bus, he spots a girl who looks exactly like his wife. Upon talking to her, he discovers she shares his wife's name as well. She also looks like his wife, only 25 years younger. After their first meeting, he agrees to a second and agrees to read his novel to her.
The novel centers on a bus full of passengers. The front people who are in the front of the bus and the back people who are in the back of the bus. The front people are supposed to be the good people while the back people are supposed to be bad. A murder on the bus sends the passengers on the bus on an adventure but it does not actually finish the adventure. The narrator is still working on the book at the time he reads it to Gabriele number 2, which is what he calls the girl he met. He meets a few more times with Gabriele number 2 before her and his wife finally meet. Without giving anything away, the meeting doesn't go the way I would have thought.
Most of the book is told in the first person but there's actually very little tension or conflict, at least not enough to sustain the story anyway. It was listed in the science fiction/ fantasy genre. I expected something supernatural or at least time travel but there isn't anything that would actually qualify it as either genre. The first person telling is almost too much to take in because it reads almost like an internal monolog. I found the book interesting but not enough to recommend it to anyone or buy it. I feel like the expelled from the title probably refers to the writer himself being a Moroccan Jew instead of being from Israel and the notebook in the novel he read to Gabriele number two I felt like was about the writer personally.
I liked the story within a story within a story idea but parts of it were difficult to follow. I feel like it wasn't executed as well as it could have been done. There wasn't enough tension or action to keep the story going. I was able to finish it because the book was relatively short. Neither the characters nor the situations were believable to me. I wouldn't recommend the book to anyone. I would rate this book a 2 out of 4.
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2 out of 4 stars
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The Expelled
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Mois Benarroch
I read the book The Expelled by Mois Benarroch. It's a story within a story within yet a third story. The main character, who is the narrator, is never actually named. He is a Jewish Moroccan writer living in Israel with his wife. The story starts with him coming back from a friend's house by bus. On the bus, he spots a girl who looks exactly like his wife. Upon talking to her, he discovers she shares his wife's name as well. She also looks like his wife, only 25 years younger. After their first meeting, he agrees to a second and agrees to read his novel to her.
The novel centers on a bus full of passengers. The front people who are in the front of the bus and the back people who are in the back of the bus. The front people are supposed to be the good people while the back people are supposed to be bad. A murder on the bus sends the passengers on the bus on an adventure but it does not actually finish the adventure. The narrator is still working on the book at the time he reads it to Gabriele number 2, which is what he calls the girl he met. He meets a few more times with Gabriele number 2 before her and his wife finally meet. Without giving anything away, the meeting doesn't go the way I would have thought.
Most of the book is told in the first person but there's actually very little tension or conflict, at least not enough to sustain the story anyway. It was listed in the science fiction/ fantasy genre. I expected something supernatural or at least time travel but there isn't anything that would actually qualify it as either genre. The first person telling is almost too much to take in because it reads almost like an internal monolog. I found the book interesting but not enough to recommend it to anyone or buy it. I feel like the expelled from the title probably refers to the writer himself being a Moroccan Jew instead of being from Israel and the notebook in the novel he read to Gabriele number two I felt like was about the writer personally.
I liked the story within a story within a story idea but parts of it were difficult to follow. I feel like it wasn't executed as well as it could have been done. There wasn't enough tension or action to keep the story going. I was able to finish it because the book was relatively short. Neither the characters nor the situations were believable to me. I wouldn't recommend the book to anyone. I would rate this book a 2 out of 4.
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