Books by Zeruya Shalev and Complete Book Reviews

Zeruya Shalev, trans. from the Hebrew by H. Sacks and Mitch Ginsburg, Toby, $24.95 (442p) ISBN 978-1-59264-266-3
Acclaimed Israeli author Shalev (Husband and Wife) comes close to exhausting archeology as metaphor in this bleak excavation of a family's breakup. Set in Jerusalem, the novel opens just after archeologist Ella Miller asks her husband, her former...
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Zeruya Shalev, trans. from the Hebrew by Philip Simpson. Bloomsbury, $26 (432p) ISBN 978-1-60819-954-9
The agony of death is supplanted by the challenges of family in Israeli writer Shalev’s (Late Family) fifth book. Hemda was the first baby born in a progressive kibbutz, raised with high expectations as her mother traveled the world raising money to
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Zeruya Shalev, Author, Tseruyah Shalev, Author, Dalya Bilu, Translator , trans. from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu. Grove $24 (311p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1718-2
Little occurs outside the racing mind of Na'ama Newman, the intensely thoughtful narrator of this second novel by Shalev (Love Life). Na'ama is a social worker who heals ailing young mothers and their children, though she is unable to turn...
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Zeruya Shalev, trans. from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston. Other, $17.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-59051-092-6
Shalev’s exhausting fifth novel (after Love Life) rides “waves of pain... drawing the map” of the lives of Iris, survivor of a Jerusalem bomb attack, and her damaged family. Confronting the return of pain from her old injuries, which coincides with...
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