{"product_id":"0747549524-be_my_knife","title":"Be My Knife","description":"\n\u003cp\u003ePhysical description; 307 p. ; 24 cm. Other titles; She-tehi li ha-sakin. English. Notes; Translated from the Hebrew. Summary; 'We could be like two people who inject themselves with truth serum, and at long last have to tell it - the truth I want to be able to say to myself, \"I bled truth with her,\" yes, that's what I want. Be a knife for me, and I, I swear, will be a knife for you.' An awkward, neurotic seller of rare books writes a desperate letter to a beautiful stranger whom he sees at a class reunion. This simple, lonely attempt at seduction begins a love affair of words between Yair and Miriam, two married, middle-aged adults, dissatisfied with their lives, yearning for the connection that has always eluded them - and, eventually, reawakened to feelings that they thought had passed them by. Their correspondence unfolds into an exchange of their most naked confessions: of desire, childhood tragedies, joys, and humiliations. Through the dialogue between Yair - a family man and surprisingly successful adulterer, whose guarded letters reveal a life of duplicity - and Miriam, at first deceptively open and warm, who fills her life with distraction to avoid a past full of painful secrets, \"Be My Knife\" explores the nature and the limits of intimacy. Subjects; Class reunions - Fiction. Midlife crisis - Fiction. Adultery - Fiction. Modern fiction. LITERARY CRITICISM \/ African. Genre; Diary fiction. Epistolary fiction. Novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiterature \u0026amp; Fiction\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eContemporary\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"Bloomsbury Books","offers":[{"title":"Used - Very Good","offer_id":49114433978558,"sku":"0747549524-3","price":13.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/51-cTxjd5DL.jpg?v=1790093055","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/0747549524-be_my_knife","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}