PRAISES FOR KALO'S TITLES
About
THE CHOSEN
G, Glijansky,
Harper
"It is indeed an epic-like novel filled with drama and passion. Mr. Kalo weaves together the political, personal and spiritual with great skill."
Julie Grau, Penguin/Riverhead Books, US
"Shlomo Kalo's rich style breathes new life into ancient
biblical stories and I admired his ability to so beautiful render emotional and
historical landscapes."
Juliette Mitchell, Penguin
"a very impressive novel, both in terms of the writing and the
subject-matter."
About THE
TROUSERS - Parables for the 21st Century
Kate Barker, Penguin
"Enjoyable
and unique".
Susan Folkins, Penguin Canda
"It is an intriguing collection of stories and I admire the vision of Kalo's writing. He is obviously a writer of great talent"
Angus Cargill,
"Shlomo Kalo is clearly an interesting writer and there's a great deal of charm to these stories".
About THE DOLLAR AND THE GUN
Helen Gummer, Simon and
"It is a very startling work, powerful and engaging, and a really
intense analysis of humanity"
Arabella Stein, Fourth Estate
"Shlomo Kalo is obviously a huge talent..."
Shoshik Shani-Lavie in
"'The Dollar and The Gun' by Shlomo Kalo strongly and profoundly gives expression to the end of the millennium. It is an important book, sharp, credible, and hits right to the point."
Andrew Kidd, editor, Penguin, U.K.
"I do agree with the cover note that this material has power, and I found
the poetic cadence of the language very striking..."
Joseph Oren, Literary Critic,
Essayist,
Writing like yours should be taken
as a "package deal" in which the "what" and "how"
are inseparable, and in any case it inspires in the readerfeelings of
respect..."
Dorit Shahaf in "Zman Avir"
"I greatly enjoyed reading the book of unique author Shlomo Kalo, THE
DOLLAR AND THE GUN. A reading both exciting and chilling, Reading it one simply
goes through an experience - There are no words to describe and express how I
feel. Simply, moving!!
About FOREVERMORE
Shimon Peres, former Israeli Prime-Minister,
"...An original style of writing and a view of things from
an interesting perspective."
Chief Education Officer, Brigadier General Avraham Asa'el
"...has read your book with great interest and pleasure... the subject
matter of the book is of importance and interest..."
Yediot Ahronot newspaper, O. Schwartz
...You read it with bated breath...on the background of the historical
events which come to life before your eyes... The book emphasizes that the Jews
have stature and that they were not designated to be eliminated or erased,
forevermore! - So that there is hope.
About THE GIFT WHICH DID NOT BELIE
Prof. Arye Brezis
"...I enjoyed reading it. The subject is presented with grace and
originalityand raises some deep questions as to the progress of the human race
and gives a matter for thought."
S. Bar Sela, M.Sc. Bio-Chem., Microbio. senior scientist, Rabin
Med.Center laboratories
"I have read Shlomo Kalo's book 'THE GIFT WHICH DID NOT BELIE' from
beginning to end without putting it down. The book presents the discovery of
Penicillin, the first Antibiotic medicine, and the construction of the nuclear
bomb - two discoveries which shaped the twentieth century.
The historical facts are interlocked with the philosophical perception of Kalo,
who tries to answer the question: "Who leads the events guiding the
development the human race ?"
About other titles
Natan Zach, prominent poet, Literary Critic, Prof at
S. Kalo is a narrator. It is not the ornaments and the
stylistic decorations that capture his heart, but people's destinies and
ways of life...
Ruth Livnit, a literary critic and translator about:
"Moments of Truth":
"I was deeply impressed, it is dramatically and powerfully written."
From the Essay: Where is Shlomo Kalo?
by Prof. Gershon Shaked, Published in'
Yediot Aharonot",
The publication of A.B. Yehoshua's "The Death of the Old Man" in
1963 was no doubt one of the most important events in the history of Hebrew
fiction. Hebrew fiction broke through the borders of realism and succeeded to
design for itself a new portrait....
In that very same year another modest book was published, whose creator did not
enjoy the same attention. I do not wish to say that the turn about induced by
this book is similar to that induced by Yehoshua's book; however, I believe
that the book is worthy of a great deal of attention. Possibly, this is one of
the misses of the critics, that if they had nurtured the creator, perhaps
(perhaps?) they would foster an interesting literary tradition and an additional
original author.
I refer to Shlomo Kalo's book "The Pile", which was also published in
1963 by "Am Oved" publishers. This is a work that different schools
and different trends may call it "all theirs", and each one of these
schools can certainly praise themselves for this work and point at different
phenomena, which will testify for sure that the work "belongs" to
it...
....
Life in a Blind Alley
All the stories end at some sharp, ironical point which gives a human meaning
to the plot. The general pattern of distress, sin, guilt, penitence or
self-destruction is a pattern which is well above the naturalistic insight of
the social reality of the immigrants' world.
....
The author's viewpoint is very humanistic: Kalo loves and understands his
ne'er-do-well heroes.
....
A Talent That Was Hidden from Our Sight. The selection of situations is mostly
very interesting and some parts like... are sharp and very human...
If we remember once again that this is the year in which "The Death
Of The Old Man" was published, then this is a perfect example of literary
processes which do not depend on a particular literary figure. Furthermore,
Kalo predated to some extent Yehoshua in the interesting combination of
concrete social material with a symbolic web which shapes this material into a
pattern....
I do not intend to compare the talents of the two creators...
However, I believe we should direct our attention to this author who has
potential talent that has not been put into practice. The task of critics is
also to direct the attention to a talent which somewhat was hidden from our
sight, and which should be encouraged to return to the literary life. I know
that the author wrote other books before and after that novel in stories.
However, I believe that we can place greater hopes in him. I allow myself to
ask: Where is Shlomo Kalo? We would like to hear and read him and about him
more!