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“Thoughtful, self-assured and highly sophisticated, full of the mostskillful modulations of tone and texture. A modern Israeli MadameBovary.”—New York Times Book Review

Set in 1950sJerusalem, My Michael is the story of a remote and intense woman namedHannah Gonen and her marriage to a decent but unremarkable man namedMichael. As the years pass and Hannah’s tempestuous fantasy lifeencroaches upon reality, she feels increasingly estranged from him andthe marriage gradually disintegrates. Gorgeously written, profoundlymoving, this extraordinary novel is at once a haunting love story, and arich reflective portrait of a place.

“A dazzling, very beautiful, splendidly conceived and composed book.” —New York Review of Books