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Interview with Assaf Gavron

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Assaf Gavron

Croc Attack!

Assaf Gavron's novel CrocAttack! won huge acclaim in his native Israel and in Germany. Set during the Middle East Intifada of twenty years ago, the film rights have already been secured.

Yet a novel which opens with a suicide bomb on a bus, introduces a Palestinian in a coma and describes how a hero become a national celebrity simply because he avoids being killed, hardly seems an obvious choice for a satirical bestseller.

 

Assaf Gavron tells Nicola Barranger why he had to write the novel.