Omer Barak's book - "Wedding Pressure": a refreshing look at the meaning of our wardrobe

Lili Milat - grabs a shelf

During the war, when I take a new book with me, I want it to take me away from here. Different people have different struggles. I know some who are actually looking for books that will be related, perhaps with the aim of trying to understand something in the unimaginable chaos we are living in the last few months. But I, as I started to say, am looking for some parallel universe for a few hours of reading, to let my thoughts rest. 

Pressed wedding / Omer Barak

Thus, at the beginning of the civil year, I chose from the shelf the book of Omar Barak, stressed wedding. I've been wanting to read it for a few years and it's a romantic comedy, so this seemed like the right choice and a good opportunity. I opened the book, read the first sentence and closed it. No. No way. I wanted to escape for a bit and now this? Let me quote you the opening of the book:
"So let me understand this one more time," Jordan Gat, my best friend, looked at me and burst out laughing.

Omer Barak's book was published in 2017 and it is doubtful whether he wrote it about the same Jordan Gat. Still, the grief of the October events washed over me. On that Shabbat, Jordan Gat was brutally displaced with her family from Kibbutz Bari for many and damning days in the captivity of Hamas. Her daughter and her husband were saved after many hours of hiding.

When I opened the book, Jordan was returned to us in a kidnapping deal but her sister-in-law, Carmel Gat, is still there. In this disaster-haunted house, Kinneret Gat (Dahan), whose roots and family are in the kibbutz where I live, was also murdered. Thus, an innocent name chosen by the author for the character of the best friend of Adam Lapid, the hero of the story, became an icon against her will.

I got over myself and opened the book again. I slowly read the first chapter, then another, and in the end I read the last hundred and fifty pages in between arrangements and transports, because I enjoyed it so much and didn't want to hold back all night to finish.

If so, Adam is approaching his 30th birthday, the destination where he promised himself that he would be married when he arrived. In a desperate move, he teams up with Jordan, who is not only his best friend but also a journalist looking for a subject to write about. The journey to the canopy begins and it is not certain that out of the parade of dates documented for the benefit of the newspaper, the right one will appear on the wedding day. 

The book promised and exists. Lots of pan, humanity and even a refreshing look at the meaning of our wardrobe. For example, when a man looks at his life with his ex through the wardrobe, he decides to equip himself with a new wardrobe because: "After going through the entire closet yesterday and every shirt in it reminded me of some time spent with Sheeran... I could sew new memories into the new clothes that were on my body." To sew new memories, how beautiful. 

When my marker was pulled, I knew I had made the right choice for me and I also knew that regarding the question of whether remains or is released In my private library, under wedding remaining. In fact, this book was the trigger for the literary column you read here every week. 

A wedding press was also supposed to see the light of day on the background, I can definitely imagine the film. But the days of the Corona virus have derailed the filmed project and as far as I understand at the moment no such production is planned. What is good for us, the readers, is that the book always remains. Take a break from your survival days and help Adam Lapid find his one and only love. After all, love is the answer to the eternal question (although Douglas Adams would argue that the answer to the eternal question is 42, but that's a discussion for another column).

Book details: 

Pressed Wedding by Omer Barak, Moden Publishing, 2017.
Pleasant reading and may good words be by your side always,
Lily