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. It 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.
