This award-winning novel of one woman's quest to understand her obsessive love for a mysterious man is by turns funny, self-mocking, and brutally honest.Writer Noa Weber is a respected cultural figure with all the trappings of a successful "feminist" life - with a strong career and a wonderful daughter she raised alone. Yet her interior life is inextricably bound by her love for one man - Alek.Trying to free herself from this lifelong obsessive love, Noa turns her pen upon herself, and with relentless honesty dissects her life. Against the evocative setting of turbulent, modern-day Israel, the examination becomes a quest to transform irrational desire into a greater, more transcendent understanding of love.The Confessions of Noa Weber introduces the English-speaking world to a writer in a rich tale that illuminates the desires, yearnings, and complexities of life in Israel, and of people trying to balance the needs of the secular world with the ultimate desire for transcendence. Read Less