Husband and Wife: A NovelGrove/Atlantic, Inc., 1 dec 2007 - 320 pagina's From the Israeli author of Love Life: “a highly polished and . . . beautifully written story that carries great weights of meaning” (Kirkus Reviews). Zeruya Shalev achieved international literary stardom with her novel Love Life, which The Washington Post Book World called “a brutally honest and often brilliant tour of individual and family psychology.” In Husband and Wife, she takes us into the heartbreak and compromise of a diseased marriage that may or may not be capable of healing. Na’ama and Udi Newman, together with their young daughter Noga, lead a quiet domestic life. But their idyll abruptly ends when Udi—a perfectly healthy man—wakes up one morning unable to move his legs. The doctors can find no physical explanation for his paralysis. It appears to be a symptom, not of illness, but of something far more insidious. This mysterious disruption soon reveals a vicious cycle of jealousy, paranoia, resentment, and accumulated injuries that now threaten to tear their small family apart. In a rush of hallucinogenic imagery, Husband and Wife captures the vulnerability and deceptive comforts of lives intertwined, offering “an acutely intimate portrait of a relationship” (Donna Rifkind, The Baltimore Sun). “Nearly impossible to look away from.” —Elle |
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Pagina 1
... turn my face to the other side , to the flat face of the alarm clock that chooses this precise minute to start ringing , and he grumbles , how many times have I told you to put the alarm clock in Noga's room , and I sit up abruptly ...
... turn my face to the other side , to the flat face of the alarm clock that chooses this precise minute to start ringing , and he grumbles , how many times have I told you to put the alarm clock in Noga's room , and I sit up abruptly ...
Pagina 2
... turn to him , hurt in ad- vance , Daddy , we missed you , and he sends her a crumpled smile , really ? And she says ... turning the room yellow , as if a powerful heavenly spot- light is being directed at us , surveying our actions . Na ...
... turn to him , hurt in ad- vance , Daddy , we missed you , and he sends her a crumpled smile , really ? And she says ... turning the room yellow , as if a powerful heavenly spot- light is being directed at us , surveying our actions . Na ...
Pagina 8
... turn off the water , part from its calming flow , and try to listen , but Noga's already gone , I recall with relief , and her infancy is gone too , no longer threatening me with its helpless- ness , and I turn on the tap again , once ...
... turn off the water , part from its calming flow , and try to listen , but Noga's already gone , I recall with relief , and her infancy is gone too , no longer threatening me with its helpless- ness , and I turn on the tap again , once ...
Pagina 9
... turn . How can you suspect him , look how he's suffering , but it doesn't make sense , maybe he's acting , but the acting is also an ill- ness , no less worrying , how am I going to cope with all this , until the voice of compassion ...
... turn . How can you suspect him , look how he's suffering , but it doesn't make sense , maybe he's acting , but the acting is also an ill- ness , no less worrying , how am I going to cope with all this , until the voice of compassion ...
Pagina 10
... turn over or crawl yet , we'll keep him for ourselves , not getting better and not dying , he'll be the baby I wanted , the baby who'll make us into a family . But now a whimper breaks the black silence , rips « IO » Zeruya Shalev.
... turn over or crawl yet , we'll keep him for ourselves , not getting better and not dying , he'll be the baby I wanted , the baby who'll make us into a family . But now a whimper breaks the black silence , rips « IO » Zeruya Shalev.
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Gedeelte 4 | 52 |
Gedeelte 5 | 63 |
Gedeelte 6 | 75 |
Gedeelte 7 | 94 |
Gedeelte 8 | 107 |
Gedeelte 11 | 165 |
Gedeelte 12 | 185 |
Gedeelte 13 | 206 |
Gedeelte 14 | 221 |
Gedeelte 15 | 233 |
Gedeelte 16 | 242 |
Gedeelte 17 | 266 |
Gedeelte 18 | 287 |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
already Anat anymore Arava arms Azekah baby beautiful body breathe child close clouds comes Daddy door dress empty everything eyes face fall father feel fingers girl give hair hand happened happy Hava head hear heart hide hurry hurt husband Ilana immediately inside Kingdom of Israel Kingdom of Judah Lachish laugh leave legs lips listen live look marzipan Mica minute Mommy morning mother mouth Na'ama neck never night Noga Noga's Nogi penis perhaps pulls quickly raspberry cordial remember round says secret smile seems shoulders sick sigh silence sleep smell smile stand stare stay stop suddenly sunspots surprise sweater talk tell there's thing throat Tibet turn Udi's vertebra voice waiting wake walk watch what's whisper words worry Yael yell ZERUYA SHALEV Zohara
Populaire passages
Pagina 252 - Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.
Pagina 225 - I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
Pagina 301 - Nevertheless, the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren. And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.