Be My Knife

The international bestseller Be My Knife is a compelling love story from David Grossman the leading Israeli novelist of his generationWe 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 complex guarded letters reveal a life of secrets kept from the people closest to him--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. A deep departure from David Grossman''s previous work Be My Knife is his subtlest most passionate novel yet.