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| Love Life |
Nominated ISBN: 0802116558 |
Find out more about the author on the following websites: Brief
biography of Zeruya Shalev
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| Zeruya Shalev | ||
| Translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu | ||
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| Stadtbibliothek Mainz, Mainz, Germany |
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ABOUT THE
BOOK
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Love
Life is the story of a young married woman's turbulent affair
with an older man. When Yaara meets Aryeh, her father's boyhood friend,
she is immediately drawn to his impassive and archly assured presence.
It is not long before she forsakes her devoted and well-meaning husband
for the powerful, mysterious man who seems to embody all she lacks: will,
strength, and the key to her parents' inaccessible pasts. They embark
on a heated affair that soon spirals toward the destructive as Yaara finds
that the things in Aryeh that attract her also repel her with equal intensity.
Yaara struggles to navigate extreme terrain ranging from the sublime to
the grotesque, the sacred to the profane, the liberating to the all-consuming.
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| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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Poet
and novelist Zeruya Shalev was raised on a kibbutz in Israel and
now lives in Jerusalem. She has a master's in biblical studies and is
chief literary editor at an Israeli publishing house. Love Life
is her first work of fiction to be translated into English.
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