Novel
Love Life
חיי אהבה
Zeruya Shalev · 1997
Synopsis
Yaara Korman, a married young woman preparing a thesis, meets Arié Even at her parents' home, a much older man and a friend of her father's youth. She at once feels a strange fascination for him, which quickly turns into obsession: she neglects a devoted husband for this powerful and mysterious man, married to a woman who is dying, and joins him wherever she can, even in the fitting room of a department store. What draws her to him repels her with equal force, and she discovers that he also has a place in the story of her parents.
Context
The book appeared in 1997 from Keter; it was the author's second book of prose, and in the same year she received the prize of the society of authors and composers. It appeared in French in 2000 from Gallimard, in a translation by Sylvie Cohen, and in English in Dalya Bilu's translation. In 2007 Maria Schrader made it into a German-Israeli film shot in Israel, for which the author co-wrote the screenplay; it was poorly received by Israeli critics and better by the German press.
Who it is for
A novel of about three hundred and fifty pages in French. It helps to know that everything is told by Yaara, with no other voice than hers.
Prizes and reception
A prize for its author in the very year of its publication; translated into many languages and adapted for the cinema.
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