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At a banquet hall, at the onset of war, Adam Weizmann's bar mitzvah party turns into a glorious disaster. On the cusp of manhood - and the verge of a nervous breakdown - Adam has been bracing for his special day, mired in family neuroses and national dysfunction.
In a chorus of voices, a fractious cast of well-wishers narrates Adam's coming-of-age in Israel: his newly devout father and the mystic rituals he practiced on his young son; his best friend, Abbie, who points the way to joyful transgression; Khalil, a Palestinian poet, who offers a glimpse of a different way to be; and Adam himself, filled with shame and desire as he faces the brokenness of his world.
At once tender and lustful, a work of scathing satire and piercing insight, MAZELTOV is a truly original vision of a young man's quest to know his own heart. Eli Zuzovsky holds degrees from Harvard and Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. In 2022, he was selected for the Forbes Israel 30 Under 30 list and the London Library Emerging Writers Programme, and he is the winner of the 2025 Einstein Fellowship. His films and plays have been shown at the New York Jewish Film Festival, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, the American Repertory Theater, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, among others. Mazeltov is his first novel. In Eli Zuzovsky's beautifully written and gloriously unique debut novel told in a chorus of voices, a young boy confronts queer lust, shame, the threat of war,and the plague of family on the day he becomes a man. Brilliant early praise and lots of reader enthusiasm: It's already getting great reader reviews, has a Publishing Weekly report that calls it 'an auspicious first outing' and 'shimmering' and is appearing in list of books readers are looking forward to next year. Publishing later than the US in Feb 2025. A beautiful novel that feels different from anything else. Extremely topical and relevant to the current day - exploring Jewishness, queerness and the multi-generational impact of war and migration. For fans of clever, voice-y, literary coming-of-age debuts by young writers like Blessings and Evenings and Weekends, short fiction in a time of distractability, anyone interested in the crossover of books/film.
In a chorus of voices, a fractious cast of well-wishers narrates Adam's coming-of-age in Israel: his newly devout father and the mystic rituals he practiced on his young son; his best friend, Abbie, who points the way to joyful transgression; Khalil, a Palestinian poet, who offers a glimpse of a different way to be; and Adam himself, filled with shame and desire as he faces the brokenness of his world.
At once tender and lustful, a work of scathing satire and piercing insight, MAZELTOV is a truly original vision of a young man's quest to know his own heart. Eli Zuzovsky holds degrees from Harvard and Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. In 2022, he was selected for the Forbes Israel 30 Under 30 list and the London Library Emerging Writers Programme, and he is the winner of the 2025 Einstein Fellowship. His films and plays have been shown at the New York Jewish Film Festival, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, the American Repertory Theater, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, among others. Mazeltov is his first novel. In Eli Zuzovsky's beautifully written and gloriously unique debut novel told in a chorus of voices, a young boy confronts queer lust, shame, the threat of war,and the plague of family on the day he becomes a man. Brilliant early praise and lots of reader enthusiasm: It's already getting great reader reviews, has a Publishing Weekly report that calls it 'an auspicious first outing' and 'shimmering' and is appearing in list of books readers are looking forward to next year. Publishing later than the US in Feb 2025. A beautiful novel that feels different from anything else. Extremely topical and relevant to the current day - exploring Jewishness, queerness and the multi-generational impact of war and migration. For fans of clever, voice-y, literary coming-of-age debuts by young writers like Blessings and Evenings and Weekends, short fiction in a time of distractability, anyone interested in the crossover of books/film.