Andrew: The Ruined House
Andrew’s world unravels and he is forced to question all his beliefs
Masterpiece of modern religious literature. Religion in modern day life presenting as deep, disturbing and unresolved issues.
"The Ruined House” ancient Jewish holiness bleeds, insistently, horrifically, into the present.
Andrew’s story is being narrated, unusually, as part of the trajectory of the long Jewish past.
Uneasy links between that past and the present animate the visions that begin, over the course of the novel, to flood Andrew’s senses and invade his dreams, frightening and finally paralyzing him.
Ruby Namdar
In 2014, for the first time, the award was won by a writer (Reuven Namdar) living outside Israel. Thereafter, it was decided that only candidates resident in Israel would be eligible to submit their works for the prize.
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