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From: Jerusalem Post
Date: 19970109
Author:Jeff Green

Jeff Green
Jerusalem Post
01-09-1997
Anshei Haplastik o T.Q.M. Betimbuktu ("The Plastic Men or T.Q.M. in Timbuktu") by Gad Haran, published by Sifriat Poalim, is an old-fashioned, naturalistic novel in the tradition of Frank Norris (The Octopus) and Upton Sinclair (The Jungle) - but without their rage against industrial injustice. Haran describes a year or so in the life of a plastic factory in a development town in the Galilee. The story begins with the summary dismissal of a veteran worker with a typically Moroccan name, Makhlouf, a sign that the factory is in trouble, and it takes us ...

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