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2002 Nominated

Love Life

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

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.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Zeruya
Shalev

ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Dalya
Bilu

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
Israel
Original Language
Hebrew
Author
Publisher
Avalon Travel Publishing
Translator
Dalya Bilu

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