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To his surprise his friend reacts with I knew it  as if this was the most well known secret in the world. In a matter of hours the whole school calls him the Jew. No denial or acceptance that he told a lie will change his nickname. This lie will lead him to be a respected writer till he finally writes an historical novel about the Jews. This novel is his first one to be translated and to his surprise it is translated into Hebrew. The novel gets him invited to a strange writer's festival in Jerusalem, where he meets an old, half senile woman, who looked like his recently deceased mother, and who is convinced that he is her son, who disappeared in the Lebanon War. He will also meet Charly, a Jewish-Moroccan Israeli writer, suffering from chronic discrimination who is doing his first steps writing a novel about Lucena in Spanish, his mother tongue, half forgotten in order to write in Hebrew. Jerusalem is at the center of Andalusian in Jerusalem, a short but intense novel where Madrid meets Jerusalem and the Jewish world becomes more fantastic than the novels of the writers who try to describe it. 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Klaus Gerken, Ygdrasil editor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA group of Hispanic writers live in the foreign city of Irxal. Years later a successful and controversial writer from the group discovers that one of them is in a mental institution, his illness is peculiar and unknown to his psychiatrists: he becomes one of the characters of his books every new day. The writer becomes obsessive about his transformations and goes to visit him almost every day, until the day he is awarded \u003cem\u003eThe Nobel Prize.\u003c\/em\u003e The book is full of frustrated writers, strange characters, nurses and even aliens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is what Azorin award winner Spanish writer Javier Perez had to say about the novel: Writing and madness are never too far away, and some of the greatest writers of all time have been unbearable types settled on a logic at least doubtful. The Nobel Prize, Mois Benarroch forces us to follow through humor, irony and satire and crude acidity through the ravings of a writer who has admitted himself to a mental institution and one of his friends, who he is interested in trying to decipher the keys to his mentality and his work. As neighboring theme, or perhaps central, doubt between popularity and good work, the desire to write for someone without actually bowing to the tastes of the public, a public increasingly less interested in thinking about anything, and jealousy among writers, who systematically lie to one another about publishing, contracts and the number of copies sold of their latest work. Despite its brevity, in the Nobel Prize we can be find nurses having fun with the quirks of their patients, aliens seeking sex with any living creature, wives who doubt whether literature is a profession or a pretext and all kind of characters, some real and some fictional, punctually fulfilling their roles in the farce, disappearing at the right time. In my opinion, although the book wants to look like a humorous entertainment, is a tremendous complaint wrapped in laughter, perhaps because saying it straight could be too crude. \u003cstrong\u003eIt reminded me of lost illusions, of Balzac, with key Sephardic humor.\u003c\/strong\u003e Javier Perez\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe narrator tells us with a bit of humor about the life of a writer. He tells it from the perspective of a writer looking for a story. He explains what it is like not to hear from publishers and the struggles that being a writer can bring. 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Mois Benarroch, souvent salu  comme le meilleur  crivain s farade d'Isra l, nous offre ici un r cit   la fois l ger et poignant, une m ditation sur la perte, la m moire et le pouvoir de l' criture.\u003cbr\u003e Une autre  tude critique compl te, s'il y avait assez de monde et de temps, pourrait  tre consacr e aux attitudes envers l'identit  et la culture s farades dans la litt rature de langue espagnole, mais je dois mentionner les romans d'un romancier marocano-isra lien qui  crit en espagnol, en h breu, et occasionnellement dans la langue jud o-marocaine du haketia, Mois Benarroch. Son Bufanda Blues (2016) et d'autres  crits tels que La trilog a tetuan  (2021), une combinaison de trois romans ant rieurs, lui ont valu d' tre salu  comme le meilleur  crivain s farade d'Isra l par le journal le plus intellectuel du pays. 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Le meilleur  crivain s farade d plore souvent que le public n'ach te pas ses livres, d montrant que parmi le public  duqu  et lecteur (juif ou en Isra l), il n'y a actuellement pas beaucoup de place pour plus qu'un  crivain s farade symbolique... le roman est une sorte de parodie des romans de Sefarad aspirant   une profondeur historique.\u003cbr\u003eJudith Roumani, Fiction: Writing Migration, Diaspora, and Modernity (Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies). Lexington Books (2022)\u003cbr\u003ePrix Kahanoff 2021. Prix Yehuda Amichai.\u003cbr\u003ePrix litt raire Jacqueline Kahanoff du livre de l'ann e 2021.\u003cbr\u003ePrix A. 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