false 629265 0 0 207941 0060995084 9780060995089 11 <![CDATA[The Saturday Morning Murder: A Psychoanalytic Case]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172691760m/207941.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172691760s/207941.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207941.The_Saturday_Morning_Murder_A_Psychoanalytic_Case 3.75 51 121672 3.68 267 51 629265 3.66 163 42 1992 207938 0060925485 9780060925482 9 <![CDATA[A Literary Murder]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172691759m/207938.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172691759s/207938.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207938.A_Literary_Murder 3.74 42
As she did in her absorbing U.S. debut, The Saturday Morning Murder: A Psychoanalytic Case , Israeli writer Gur follows Michael Ohayon, Superintendent of Criminal Investigations in Jersusalem, on the trail of murder set within a small, tightly structured community. Here, two professors in the Hebrew Literature Department at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem are killed on one weekend: young lecturer Iddo Dudai is poisoned in Eilat by carbon monoxide introduced into his scuba diving tanks, and Shaul Tirosh, Israel's most prized poet and head of the Literature Department, is fatally bludgeoned in his university office. The week before, Dudai, who had recently returned from a research trip to the States, had challenged Tirosh's critical views in a public seminar. Tirosh, remotely elegant and a known womanizer, had just ended a longtime and widely acknowledged liaison with the wife of his ardent supporter and colleague, Tuvia Shai, and had turned his attentions to Dudai's young wife. While unraveling the tangled personal and professional relationships that knit the victims and suspects (who are chiefly the members of the literature department), the scholarly Moroccan-born Ohayon finds himself drawn to Tirosh's poems, instinctively believing that they hold the key to the case. As he uncovers the diverse and profound betrayals that lie behind the crimes, Ohayon takes his first trip to the U.S., adjusts to an unwanted break from his married lover and oversees the interaction of his own colleagues. A complex mystery set in an unusual, well-developed milieu with a full cast of multi-dimensioned characters, Literary Murder is literary pleasure. - Publishers Weekly
]]> 121672 3.68 267 51 629265 3.66 163 42 1993 207939 0060926546 9780060926540 10 <![CDATA[Murder on a Kibbutz: A Communal Case]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172691759m/207939.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172691759s/207939.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207939.Murder_on_a_Kibbutz_A_Communal_Case 3.59 44 121672 3.68 267 51 629265 3.66 163 42 1994 6310269 1933633689 9781933633688 8 <![CDATA[The Confessions of Noa Weber]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6310269.The_Confessions_of_Noa_Weber 3.39 18
Trying to understand--as well as free herself from--this lifelong obsession, Noa turns her pen upon herself, and with relentless honesty dissects her life. Against the evocative setting of turbulent, modern-day Israel, this examination becomes a quest to transform irrational desire into a greater, transcendent understanding of love.

The Confessions of Noa Weber introduces a startlingly talented writer in a rich tale that illuminates the desires, yearnings, and complexities of life in Israel.

Gail Hareven is one of Israel's leading writers; the author of five novels, three story collections, plays, nonfiction, and children's books; and the winner of the prestigious Sapir Prize for Literature. She teaches writing and feminist theory in Jerusalem. This is her first book translated into English.

Winner of Israel's Sapir Prize for Literature

"A very wise book, and it is written in the most beautiful, precise and definative prose."-Ha'aretz Literary Supplement

"Sometimes one had the experience of reading a book and just falling in love with it-because it is so well written, so moving, it gets into your soul. That was my experience when I read The Confessions of Noa Weber."-Eleonora Lev, Ha'aretz Literary Supplement]]> 857355 3.40 20 9 629265 3.66 163 42 2008 2029168 1933372087 9781933372082 4 <![CDATA[Love Burns]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/20/168/2029168-m-1255631540.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/20/168/2029168-s-1255631540.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2029168.Love_Burns 3.71 7 "Endless surprise twists and hilarious scenes. The finale leaves one happily astonished."-Elena Loewenthal, La Stampa

"Starts out as a psychological drama and becomes a strange, funny, unexpected hybrid: a farce thriller. A great book."-Ma'ariv

Ilan, a middle-aged professor of astrophysics, discovers that his young wife is having an affair. Terrified of losing her, he decides to confront her lover instead. Their meeting ends in the latter's murder-the unlikely murder weapon being Ilan's pipe-and in desperation, Ilan disposes of the body in the fresh grave of his kindergarten teacher. But when the body is discovered . . .

Edna Mazya is one of Israel's most lauded and popular playwrights. In 1997 she received the Margalit Prize for her play Family Story. Her plays include The Uncle from Capetown, The Rebels, and Herod. This is her first novel.

]]> 646873 3.75 8 4 629265 3.66 163 42 2006 6799511 1567923917 9781567923919 0 <![CDATA[Badenheim 1939]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6799511-badenheim-1939 3.00 1
The story unfolds as matter-of-factly as a Chekhov play. The characters on stage are so deeply held by their defensive daily trivia that they manage to misconstrue every signal of their fate. Finally, the vacationers, whose numbers have now increased by the forced crowding-in of other Jews hardly on vacation, become de facto prisoners in their familiar resort; their "vacation" begins to take on the lineaments of undefined disaster. The text builds a sense of foreboding in which each human detail is so persuasive, so right in its fidelity to the terrible evasions of the time, that it leaves us transformed by what we and the author know must, and will, happen to Badenheim's visitors.

Badenheim 1939 owes everything to its author's astonishing capacity to recreate the energies and confusions of innocent and uncomprehending victims who, always loyal to civility and social graces, fail to even dimly see the cruel terms of their imminent fate.]]> 32566 3.67 227 27 629265 3.66 163 42 2009 7106286 0802110010 9780802110015 0 <![CDATA[Bone to the Bone]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7106286-bone-to-the-bone 0.0 0 237927 3.50 4 0 629265 3.66 163 42 1993 7214758 1417706201 9781417706204 0 <![CDATA[Open Heart]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1259428536m/7214758.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1259428536s/7214758.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7214758-open-heart 0.0 0 728374 3.00 1 0 629265 3.66 163 42 1997