From each joke to next, you see Dovaleh spiraling down on the stage with each page his desperation seeps through. Unlike a stand-up comedy performance, this wasn’t meant to be funny but an attempt to be funny. “What you saw.” And that’s the whole premise of the book. It’s a two hour-long performance narrated by Dovaleh’s school friend and retired Supreme Court Judge Avishai Lazar, who received a phone call by Dovaleh after over forty years of no contact and asked to watch him perform and tell him. Dovaleh Greenstein is a veteran stand-up comedian and is performing in a small club in Netanya, Israel. What initially seems like a story told from a third person perspective is revealed to be a first-person narration as observed by one of the audience members who really doesn’t know why he’s there. The title may make it seem like a book of funny one-liners but it is far from that. What it captures, however, is more than one expects. A Horse Walks Into A Bar, written by David Grossman, and translated by Jessica Cohen (Winner of The Man Booker International Prize 2017) is one of those books.Ī short read. Very rarely do you come across a book that not only strips and bares the emotions of the characters, but also the reader.
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