The book has been on the New York Times best-seller list for hardcover fiction for four weeks. “Beautiful World, Where Are You” follows the friendship of two young women, Eileen, an editorial assistant at a literary magazine, and Alice, a novelist whose career raced into fame and success, much in the way that Ms. The author, 30, is sometimes described as more famous than the books she’s written, or as the first great millennial novelist.
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A TV series based on “Conversations With Friends” is expected to be released next year. Her second novel, “Normal People,” was longlisted for the Booker Prize and made into a television series by BBC Three and Hulu, for which Ms. Rooney’s books have been successful both critically and commercially. “Her audience here are people who are in total support of a Palestinian state,” Ms. Harris added, are not those who support the policies to which she likely objects. “What literature is supposed to do is reach into the hearts and minds of people. “When it’s ice cream or when it’s cement, or whatever else it is, it’s one thing, but when it comes to culture, I just have a very, very hard time seeing how this can be productive in changing anything,” Ms.
Rooney’s decision as painful and counterproductive. Walker, who was born in Georgia in 1944, said at the time, “I grew up under American apartheid and this,” she added of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, “was far worse.”ĭeborah Harris, a literary agent whose company handles major authors looking to be translated and published in Israel, described Ms. Alice Walker said in 2012 that she would not allow a Hebrew translation of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Color Purple.” Ms. Rooney is not the first prominent author to decline an offer to publish in Israel. Rooney’s decision was previously reported by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. movement is to end the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, while critics, including many Israelis, say its real aim is the end of Israel as a Jewish state. movement, which aims to harness international political and economic pressure on Israel.
Rooney cited a report published this year by Human Rights Watch that said the actions of the Israeli government meet the legal definition of apartheid, and she expressed her support for the B.D.S. Her Israeli publisher, Modan Publishing House, said in an email that when it inquired about “Beautiful World, Where Are You,” which was published in English in September, it was told that she wasn’t interested in publishing it in Israel. She added that she knew some would disagree with her decision, “but I simply do not feel it would be right for me under the present circumstances to accept a new contract with an Israeli company that does not publicly distance itself from apartheid and support the U.N.-stipulated rights of the Palestinian people.” “But for the moment, I have chosen not to sell these translation rights to an Israeli-based publishing house.” “Likewise, it would be an honor for me to have my latest novel translated into Hebrew and available to Hebrew-language readers,” she said. Rooney said that she was proud to have her first two books, “Normal People” and “Conversations With Friends,” published in Hebrew. The Irish novelist Sally Rooney said on Tuesday that she would not allow the Israeli publishing house that handled her previous novels to publish her most recent book, “ Beautiful World, Where Are You,” because of her support for Palestinian people and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
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