Black Box

<p>Seven years after their divorce Ilana breaks the bitter silence with a letter to Alex a world-renowned authority on fanaticism begging for help with their rebellious adolescent son Boaz. One letter leads to another and so evolves a correspondence between Ilana and Alex Alex and Michel (Ilana's Moroccan husband) Alex and his Mephistophelian Jerusalem lawyer--a correspondence between mother and father stepfather and stepson father and son each pleading his or her own case.</p><p>The grasping lyrical manipulative loving Ilana has stirred things up. Now her former husband and her present husband have become rivals not only for her loyalty but for her son's as well.</p><p><em>Black Box </em>is a record of passion an ingenious witty feeling novel of contemporary life. Amos Oz at his novelistic human and poetic best.</p>