Lovers and Strangers: Two Novellas - Softcover

Grossman, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747581355 ISBN 13: 9780747581352

Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2006

Synopsis

These two novellas concern love. In 'Frenzy', Shaul is convinced that his wife is having an affair. He feverishly imagines her, in every painful detail, with her lover. Esther has never seen the human side of her aloof brother-in-law, but during a night-time journey Shaul unburdens himself, recreating an affair he has never witnessed. Is he mad? Or has he divined the truth? In 'Her Body Knows', Rotem has spent most of her life being angry with her mother, Nilli. Now Nilli is dying and Rotem, who has finally found happiness in London, must return to say goodbye. She arrives with a story about Nilli, full of accusations, empathy, love and forgiveness.

About this title

Review:

‘Absorbing and moving ... [Her Body Knows] is a wonderful story, short and bittersweet’ -- John Harding, Daily Mail

‘His fiction is lively, intense and unafraid of tackling the most raw corners of a psyche’ -- Eileen Battersby, Irish Times

From the Publisher:

This is David Grossman’s most accessible book to date – two gripping and profound stories about men and women, love and relationships.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0747581355
• ISBN 13: 9780747581352
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272