Prix ​​Courrier International 2012

In Croc Attack (ed. Payot-Rivages), Israeli writer Assaf Gavron alternates narratives Croc lIsraélien Fahmi and the Palestinian. While approaching the two men, but each is a prisoner of the role assigned to it his camp.
Of course, a conflict always at least two opposed camps, but which? In Croc Attack, the first and to date the only one of four novels dAssaf Gavron to have been translated into English [and French], the answer is the one expected of a lon Israeli writing a novel about terrorism and alternating narratives two narrators to represent each of the two camps. At Assaf Gavron, it comes the usual sides of the conflict in the Holy Land: Israelis and Palestinians, Arabs and Jews, victims and aggressors in turn. But, judging by laccueil reserved Croc Attack in the world, this novel, which takes place at the height of the second Intifada [2000-2005], also opposes two other camps, which differ not so much ethnicity or their religion by their place of residence.
Do they live here, where a seemingly innocuous choice to go to work in Tel Aviv by bus or shared taxi to the size of a minibus can have deadly consequences, as this is the case for Eitan Enoch, said Fang, the protagonist jovial and disillusioned Israeli novel? Or do they live there, where lattentat against the minibus 9a first of three attacks that Croc escapes, was probably barely mentioned on the news?
Ultimately, whether this novel also provoked divergent reactions, this is what makes his strength so accessible and familiar to describe what this is for Israelis to live in constant fear of the next explosion and what this is for Palestinians to live constantly with the recall of Israeli lemprise on their daily lives visibly more interested in those who have not the habit of living these situations and for whom even the existence of a novel that includes both an Israeli views and a Palestinian perspective deserves BE welcomed.
All this may be good news for Croc Attack. If peace is never declared one day, maybe envy of a book depicting two truly alien worlds, a desire already generated in other countries by the spatial distance can also be generated in an exempt Israel from terror by the temporal distance.