Praise and Poems
FROM THE NOVEL:
‘Memory isn’t always
what you think it is…
‘In actual fact, I might want to be a socialist, if I understood what it meant, but I don’t want to live on the kibbutz and not have my own stuff. I mean, I really don’t want to wear big fat Yudit’s knickers.’
‘Let them look at someone else for a change, not us. Keep schtum, close your mouth, close your eyes and enjoy the sunshine and the milk and the honey!’
‘So a Jew must only ever do what is right for other Jews, not other human beings?’ I ask. ‘Go to sleep, Rika, do me a favour.’
‘What!’ he says.
‘Why don’t we have sexual intercourse anymore?’ I say.
‘Ma!’ he says, ‘I’m your daughter for Christ’s sake!’
‘Yes,’ I say, ‘that’s what you always say.’
