- Sapir Prize for Literature 2001 · Shortlist
Husband and Wife
בעל ואישה · Baal ve-ishah
Zeruya Shalev (צרויה שלו, born 1959)
Translated by Dalya Bilu
English editions
In EnglishHusband and Wife
Canongate · United Kingdom · 2003 · Paperback · 288 pages
Husband and Wife
Grove Press · United States · August 2002 · Hardcover · 311 pages
Husband and Wife
Canongate · United Kingdom · 2002 · 284 pages
Husband and Wife
Grove Press · United States · 17 November 2003 · Paperback · 320 pages
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Na'ama and Udi have been together since they were teenagers, and they have a young daughter. Then, one morning, Udi simply cannot get up: his legs will not carry him, and no doctor can say why. Shut in with this mysterious paralysis, the couple can no longer avoid what lies between them, from Na'ama's unfaithfulness to the coldness Udi shows their child, and the long-buried hurts of their past rise to the surface. Swinging between bitterness and tenderness, departure and return, the novel looks with unusual candour at the slow, familiar process by which two people who once loved each other become strangers within a marriage.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 341 pages in the original
- Genres
- Love, Family (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2000 by Keshet
- Author's age
- 41 when first published
- ISBN
9789657130094 (original)
9780802117182 (Grove Press, United States)
9781841952857 (Canongate, United Kingdom)
9780802140098 (Grove Press, United States)
9781841954165 (Canongate, United Kingdom)
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