Husband and Wife

by Dalya Bilu (Translator), Dalya Bilu (Translator), Zeruya Shalev (Author)

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  Paperback
  2003

  $11.58

  Na'ama Newman wakes up one morning to a new reality. Her husband Udi, formerly a healthy, active tour guide, announces that he can no longer move his legs. The paralysis is diagnosed as psychosomatic - Udi has gone on strike and Na'ama must cope with the crisis, while balancing the demands of work and motherhood. The plot moves swiftly from this starting point, and Shalev depicts the complexities of intimate relationships with daring perceptiveness. It is a unique and intense novel, compulsively readable and extraordinarily insightful. Husband and Wife brilliantly captures the vulnerability and deceptive comforts of lives intertwined, as well as the near impossibility of setting out to disentangle them without any casualties. With this novel, Zeruya Shalev is sure to gain the renown in the UK that she already enjoys around the world.

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  Paperback
  2002

  $3.47

  One morning, without warning and out of nowhere, Na'ama Newman wakes up to a new reality. Her husband, until now a healthy, active tour guide, announces that he cannot get out of bed. Reminiscent of Kafka's Metamorphis, we have full view of the relationship between Udi, who has gone on 'strike' and his wife, who tries to cope with the crisis in their marriage. In a novel that moves and shifts with extraordinary pace, Shalev captivatingly weaves her multi-coloured threads into a single delicate fabric. Courageous and utterly convincing, this novel challenges 'the way things are'.