Sally Rooney has declined to sell translation rights for her latest novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You to an Israeli publishing house. Here’s why
Rooney is participating in the Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions movement in solidarity with Palestinians. Photo-Illustration: The Cut; Photos: Anthony Harvey/Shutterstock; Farrar, Straus and Giroux Uh-oh, Sally Rooney drama on the horizon: The writer has declined to sell translation rights for her latest novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You — which explores topics like unwanted fame and what it means to live ethically under capitalism — to an Israeli publishing house.
Rooney published Beautiful World, Where Are You in September Her third novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You, was published on September 7 to a literary frenzy. In the U.K., the book quickly became the year’s best-selling hardcover title with vendors moving more than 40,000 copies in five days. The reviews were mixed, but nonetheless, the Guardian reports, Beautiful World, Where Are You was poised for widespread translation — something in the ballpark of Normal People’s 46 languages.
BDS is a polarizing movement BDS has a few key aims: to get Israel to grant its Palestinian citizens equal rights; to let Palestinian refugees displaced in the conflict that followed Israel’s establishment back into their homes; and to reclaim the occupied land Israel took in the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, including the West Bank. In service of those goals, BDS promotes an international boycott along the lines of the one that helped end South Africa’s apartheid.
Still, her decision has been described by some critics as exclusionary. “The very essence of literature, its power to bring a sense of coherence and order to the world, is negated by Rooney’s choice to exclude a group of readers because of their national identity,” Gitit Levy-Paz, a fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute, wrote in an op-ed. “I’m not suggesting that Rooney is antisemitic, or that criticism of Israel automatically constitutes antisemitism.
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