Just what motivates a writer to write, anyway? Is it a need to expiate past experiences, an apprehension for the direction of the future, a need to slough off inner thoughts not aceptable to voice out loud?
The Cathedral Mall plays out in a real-life futuristic city constructed around a mall which provides everything, including stores, clinics, restaurants and bookstores. The suburbs are called “passageways”and go from the city to the end of civilization, out where the city ends, and war begins. Sandoval and Sandra are hunted for trying to exit La Catedral Mall without making a purchase, a capital offense in a world where buying is a religión. “Buy for your future. Buying is our future.” Chants a muezzin-type crier over the sound system of the mall named La Catedral which may have been a synagogue in the past. Sandoval gets to the city limits and there sees people who try unsuccessfully to enter, where he finds he can no longer be the person he was and seeks refuge in his father’s writings which spoke of another past, another world.
A meld of science fiction and social commentary. A novel for the new millennium.
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About the Author
Mois Benarrock was born in Tetuan Morocco in 1959. At age thirteen he emigrated with his parents to Israel and since then has lived in Jerusalem. He began to write poetry in English at age fifteen, later in Hebrew and finally in his native language: Spanish. He published his first poems in 1979. In the eighties he formed part of various avant garde groups and edited the magazine Marot . His first book in Hebrew appeared in 1994 titled Verses of the Immigrant. He also published two books of stories, various books of poems in Hebrew, English and Spanish, and four novels.
In Spain he published the book of poetry Esquina in Tetuan (Esquio 2000) and in 2005 the novel Lucena (Lf Ediciones) In 2008 Editorial Destino published the novel En las Puertas de Tangier and in 2010 the Compendium Amor y Exilios.
Mois Benarrock, novelist, poet, translator has been awarded the prize from the First Minister of Israel (2008) and the Yehuda Amichay poetry prize (2012).
Description:
Just what motivates a writer to write, anyway? Is it a need to expiate past experiences, an apprehension for the direction of the future, a need to slough off inner thoughts not aceptable to voice out loud?
The Cathedral Mall plays out in a real-life futuristic city constructed around a mall which provides everything, including stores, clinics, restaurants and bookstores. The suburbs are called “passageways”and go from the city to the end of civilization, out where the city ends, and war begins. Sandoval and Sandra are hunted for trying to exit La Catedral Mall without making a purchase, a capital offense in a world where buying is a religión. “Buy for your future. Buying is our future.” Chants a muezzin-type crier over the sound system of the mall named La Catedral which may have been a synagogue in the past. Sandoval gets to the city limits and there sees people who try unsuccessfully to enter, where he finds he can no longer be the person he was and seeks refuge in his father’s writings which spoke of another past, another world.
A meld of science fiction and social commentary. A novel for the new millennium.
**
About the Author
Mois Benarrock was born in Tetuan Morocco in 1959. At age thirteen he emigrated with his parents to Israel and since then has lived in Jerusalem. He began to write poetry in English at age fifteen, later in Hebrew and finally in his native language: Spanish. He published his first poems in 1979. In the eighties he formed part of various avant garde groups and edited the magazine Marot . His first book in Hebrew appeared in 1994 titled Verses of the Immigrant. He also published two books of stories, various books of poems in Hebrew, English and Spanish, and four novels. In Spain he published the book of poetry Esquina in Tetuan (Esquio 2000) and in 2005 the novel Lucena (Lf Ediciones) In 2008 Editorial Destino published the novel En las Puertas de Tangier and in 2010 the Compendium Amor y Exilios. Mois Benarrock, novelist, poet, translator has been awarded the prize from the First Minister of Israel (2008) and the Yehuda Amichay poetry prize (2012).