Inside the bubble
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1187955,00.html
Late last year, the award-winning novelist Linda Grant moved to Tel
Aviv for four months. How could people bear to live there, she wanted
to know, amid daily reports of violence, corruption and despair? What
she discovered was a society in a state of profound denial - and the
horrifying possibility that there may be no solution to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Thursday April 8, 2004
The Guardian
In October last year I went to Tel Aviv and rented an apartment on
Ruppin Street, a couple of blocks from the sea. It is a quiet road,
lined with palm trees and ficus shading Bauhaus buildings erected in
the 1930s to house the influx of refugees from Europe. I was not there
to cover the occupation; plenty of others are busy with that important
work. My purpose was private, and literary - to write a novel set in
an imaginary city in an imaginary country whose inhabitants all come
from somewhere else; to contemplate some questions about identity,
belonging, suffering, and how or if the legacy of personal pain can be
eased by various kinds of pleasure. I wrote in the mornings and in the
afternoons, on the block of Ben Yehuda Street round the corner, with
its cafes, stationers, toy shop, fruit-and-veg shop, hairdressers,
synagogue, supermarket, manicurist and taxi dispatch office. And in
chance encounters I asked the same question over and over again: Where
did your family come from?
Linda Grant
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