Love Life

With shocking immediacy, Zeruya Shalev lays bare the story of Ya'ara, a young married woman who becomes entangled in a turbulent affair with a man in his fifties, seemingly an old friend of the family. She forsakes her devoted and well-meaning husband for this man who seems to embody all that she lacks: will, strength, and the key to her family's past. A literary tour de force and irresistible page-turner, Love Life is a searingly intelligent, seductive and provocative novel. Hailed by the New York Times as a book that 'broke all the barriers . . . sexually explicit yet dense with biblical allusion and psychological insight ', Love Life unbuttoned Hebrew literature and spent four months heading Israel's bestseller list. It is a dazzling debut that strikes to the core of sexual attraction, infidelity and self-destruction.