My Michael
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0156031604 / Publisher: Mariner Books, November 2005
As Hannah Gonen's seemingly happy marriage to Michael gradually breaks down, her secret fears begin to wear on her sanity, in a novel set against the backdrop of 1950s Jerusalem. Reprint.
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"Thoughtful, self-assured and highly sophisticated, full of the most skillful modulations of tone and texture. A modern Israeli Madame Bovary.”—New York Times Book ReviewSet in 1950s Jerusalem, My Michael is the story of a remote and intense woman named Hannah Gonen and her marriage to a decent but unremarkable man named Michael. As the years pass and Hannah’s tempestuous fantasy life encroaches upon reality, she feels increasingly estranged from him and the marriage gradually disintegrates. Gorgeously written, profoundly moving, this extraordinary novel is at once a haunting love story, and a rich reflective portrait of a place."A dazzling, very beautiful, splendidly conceived and composed book." —New York Review of Books
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