"Thoughtful, self-assured and highly sophisticated, full of the most skillful modulations of tone and texture. A modern Israeli Madame Bovary."--New York Times Book ReviewSet in 1950s Jerusalem, My Michael is the story of a remote and intense woman named Hannah Gonen and her marriage to a decent but unremarkable man named Michael. As the years pass and Hannah's tempestuous fantasy life encroaches upon reality, she feels increasingly estranged from him and the marriage gradually disintegrates. Gorgeously written, profoundly moving, this extraordinary novel is at once a haunting love story, and a rich reflective portrait of a place.
"A dazzling, very beautiful, splendidly conceived and composed book." --New York Review of Books
- ISBN10 0547542666
- ISBN13 9780547542669
- Publish Date 1 November 2005 (first published 28 April 1992)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Mariner Books
- Edition Digital Original ed.
- Format eBook
- Pages 264
- Language English