Following the bizarre accidental death of his wife, Israeli secret service agent Yoel Ravid retires to the suburbs with his daughter, mother and mother-in-law. After a lifetime of uncovering other people's secrets he is forced to look back at the lies he has told himself; at the desolate enigma of his wife's life and death; his years of service to the state and the riddle of his daughter's behavior.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 21 May 1992
ISBN 10: 0099913402
ISBN 13: 9780099913405
Book Overview: 'There is no novelist writing today who catches the feeling of the moment more surely than Amos Oz' Scotsman