Pain

The Resource Pain
Label
Pain
Statement of responsibility
Zeruya Shalev ; translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
  • eng
  • heb
  • eng
Summary
A powerful, astute novel that exposes how old passions can return, testing our capacity to make choices about what is most essential in life. Ten years after she was seriously injured in a terrorist attack, the pain comes back to torment Iris. But that is not all: Eitan, the love of her youth, also comes back into her life. Though their relationship ended many years ago, she was more deeply wounded when he left her than by the suicide bomber who blew himself up next to her. Iris's marriage is stagnant. Her two children have grown up and are almost independent; she herself has become a dedicated, successful school principal. Now, after years without passion and joy, Eitan brings them back into her life. But she must concoct all sorts of lies to conceal her affair from her family, and the lies become more and more complicated. Is this an impossible predicament, or on the contrary a scintillating revelation of the many ways life's twists and turns can bring us to a place we would never have expected to be?
Member of
Cataloging source
PUL
Dewey number
892.4/36
Index
no index present
LC call number
PJ5055.41.A43
LC item number
K4413 2019
Literary form
novels

Context

Context of Pain

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