Author: GROSSMAN, DAVID; ALMOG, VERED, TRANSLATOR; GURANTZ, MAYA, TRANSLATOR
Title: Be my knife / David Grossman ; translated by Vered Almog and Maya Gurantz
Description: London : Bloomsbury 2002. First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine. very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong. Physical description; 307 p. ; 24 cm. Other titles; She-tehi li ha-sakin. English. Notes; Translated from the Hebrew. Summary; 'We could be like two people who inject themselves with truth serum. and at long last have to tell it - the truth I want to be able to say to myself. 'I bled truth with her.' yes. that's what I want. Be a knife for me. and I. I swear. will be a knife for you.' An awkward. neurotic seller of rare books writes a desperate letter to a beautiful stranger whom he sees at a class reunion. This simple. lonely attempt at seduction begins a love affair of words between Yair and Miriam. two married. middle-aged adults. dissatisfied with their lives. yearning for the connection that has always eluded them - and. eventually. reawakened to feelings that they thought had passed them by. Their correspondence unfolds into an exchange of their most naked confessions: of desire. childhood tragedies. joys. and humiliations. Through the dialogue between Yair - a family man and surprisingly successful adulterer. whose guarded letters reveal a life of duplicity - and Miriam. at first deceptively open and warm. who fills her life with distraction to avoid a past full of painful secrets. 'Be My Knife' explores the nature and the limits of intimacy. Subjects; Class reunions — Fiction. Midlife crisis — Fiction. Adultery — Fiction. Modern fiction. LITERARY CRITICISM / African. Genre; Diary fiction. Epistolary fiction. Novel. ISBN: 0747549524. Weight in Kg appr.:

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