Book description
Four friends get together to watch the 1998 World Cup final. One of
them has an idea: let's write down our wishes for the next few years,
put them away, and during the next final - four years from now - we'll
get them out and see how many we've achieved. This is how World Cup
Wishes opens, and from here we watch what happens to their wishes
and their friendships as life marches on.
The four men's bond is deep and solid, but tested by betrayal,
death,and distance their alliance comes under pressure. Each friend
offers a different perspective, though not necessarily a reliable
one... and as they and the world around them change, so do their ideas
of friendship and happiness. By the end they are forced to ask whether
wishes can really be fulfilled. Or will their story turn out to be a
requiem - for a generation, for friendship, or even for one of the
four young men?
Once again, Eshkol Nevo has produced a novel suffused with charm,
warmth and an astonishing wisdom.
Eshkol Nevo was born in Jerusalem in 1971. He studied psychology at
Tel Aviv University and then worked as a copywriter for eight years.
Today he teaches creative writing at a number of academic institutions.
Nevo has published a collection of stories, a work of non-fiction and
his first novel,
Homesick
, was awarded the Israeli Book Publishers Association's Golden Book
Prize (2005) and the FFI-Raymond Wallier Prize at the Salon du Livre
(Paris, 2008). Eshkol is an Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation chosen
artist - one of Israel's highest recognitions for excellence in the
arts.
