House Arrest

Asa Fogel, forty, holds a doctorate nobody needs, has just split from his wife and belongs to a much-admired family from Merhavia. Like everyone else in Israel, he hears on the news that his adored mother Elisheva, a history professor, art collector, deputy head of a peace think tank and pillar of countless committees, may have embezzled 3.4 million shekels. Reporters camp at the door; his sister insists the charges are false, his brother is not so sure, his estranged wife is everywhere and his friends melt away. While the family lurches between ancient grudges and new humiliations, Asa has to rethink who his mother really is, now that she is confined to her home.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

335 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Satire, Crime (assigned by AI)

Set in

Israel

First published

2013 by Zmora-Bitan

Author's age

38 when first published

ISBN

9789655525052 (original)

9781954404434 (New Vessel Press, United States)