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Lazaretto (novel)
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'Lazaretto' is a novel written by the Israeli author Shay K. Azoulay, published in 2019 by Pardes Publishing.'[http://www.pardes.co.il/?id=showbook&catnum=978-1-61838-499-7 Lazaretto]', Pardes Publishing (in Hebrew) Inspired by Albert Camus's 'The Plague', the novel takes place in the near future, where the city of Tel Aviv is cut off from the rest of Israel and its residents are forced to fend for themselves.[https://skazoulay.wixsite.com/skazoulay/lazaretto 'Lazaretto'], Shay K. Azoulay A review in 'Haaretz' described the novel as an ambitious, high-tension novel, seeped in paranoia... 'Lazaretto' is a disturbing and stirring dystopia which haunted me while I was reading it and even after I'd finished.[https://www.haaretz.co.il/literature/prose/.premium-REVIEW-1.8415162 'Lazaretto': In This Novel the "State of Tel Aviv" Becomes a Dystopian Reality] - Omri Herzog, 'Haaretz', 20 January 2020 (in Hebrew) The novel was also named "Book of the Year" by 'LaIsha' magazine and dubbed "the novel that predicted the pandemic""'Lazaretto' - The Novel that Predicted the Pandemic" Maya Levin, 'LaIsha', p. 51, 14 September 2020.
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