translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin. Halban . London. 2006
After reading 'Friendly Fire' by the same author I've been looking forward to reading his earlier books. This one covers slightly similar territory; the almost metaphysical ramifications to life and terrorism in current day Israel. People are overcome with powerful unexplained emotions; snappy, moody and hysterical (in a really good way). Hysteria with subtlety and beauty.
"That's love's secret" the weasel continued as the vehicle slowed to take the hairpin bends. "There is no formula. Each person has to find the secret for himself. That's why Eros is neither god nor man. He's a daimon, thick-skinned, unwashed, barefoot, homeless, and poor - yet he links the human to the divine, the temporal to the eternal..."p.157
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