The men, women, and even animals in this collection live at the mercy of their hearts. Young and old, on two legs or four, they grope for love and tenderness, knowing that all connection is fraught with danger and all relationship random and evanescent. Yet the heart wants what it wants. The title novella, a wrenching account of the end of love, traces a gentle dog's transformation into a vicious beast as the couple who owns him breaks apart.
In The Happiness Game the tenuous bonds between husband and wife are undermined by black crows and weak hearts, while Matti...
The men, women, and even animals in this collection live at the mercy of their hearts. Young and old, on two legs or four, they grope for love and ...
For Shira Klein, Yonatan Luria, and his daughter, Dana, it is winter--winter at work, winter among friends, winter at home, and winter of the heart. Yonatan is a marginal writer, a fifty-year-old widower left to raise his child alone. When he meets Shira, a bestselling author paralyzed by stage fright, the thaw begins as man, woman, and girl enter a halting relationship, alternately tender and belligerent, generous and withdrawn.
For Shira Klein, Yonatan Luria, and his daughter, Dana, it is winter--winter at work, winter among friends, winter at home, and winter of the heart...
Eine Mitfahrgelegenheit in ein anderes Leben suchte Langzeit-Single Alona, als sie den geschiedenen Mark traf, der gerade eine Trattoria eröffnet hat und phantastisch kocht. Doch die Idylle mit Häuschen und Garten und zwei kleinen Kindern auf dem Lande hat ihre Schönheitsfehler, genauso wie die der anderen Paare in 'Eden', diesem Paradies alternder Yuppies vor den Toren von Tel Aviv.
Eine Mitfahrgelegenheit in ein anderes Leben suchte Langzeit-Single Alona, als sie den geschiedenen Mark traf, der gerade eine Trattoria eröffnet hat...
From a lead writer of the original In Treatment TV series comes "an accomplished, acutely observed novel" (Publishers Weekly).
Eden is not the paradise it appears to be. It is a stifling rural Israeli community in which upscale urban escapees Alona and Mark try to salvage their relationship under the resentful scrutiny of Roni, Mark's adolescent daughter, who feels empowered by her sexual adventures with older men. The neighbors, Dafna and Eli, are in crisis, too, their marriage rent by the torment of infertility. Set against a backdrop of Middle East fears, family...
From a lead writer of the original In Treatment TV series comes "an accomplished, acutely observed novel" (Publishers Weekly).
