The Last Interview

Eshkol Nevo is also the author of Three Floors Up. In this novel, a writer sits down to answer questions an online magazine has sent him. The first ones are routine: when he decided to become a writer, how much of his fiction is drawn from his own life, and whether he has ever written something he would never let anyone read. Normally he answers such questions with care, weighing every word. This time, as his personal life starts to fall apart, he finds he can only speak honestly, and the answers come out raw, funny, painful, shocking and unapologetic.

Each question leads him into a room of his life he has kept closed. As he talks, the boundary between what he invented and what he lived starts to blur, and the story suggests that a truth can hold a lie at its center and the reverse is also true. The book examines how thin the line is between a writer's work and his life, and between love and hatred, and it is aimed at adult readers who enjoy literary fiction about identity and self-presentation.