At 33, obsessive, hypersensitive Susannah Rabin lives with her mother, their cloistered world providing a barrier to the excruciating torment of human contact. But then Susannah's mother tells her that they are going to have a guest—Susannah's cousin, a young man from New York. Susannah is horrified. Until the guest arrives, looking uncannily like Percy Bysshe Shelley. Fascinated by his exoticism, Susannah finds herself going to the movies, meeting his friends, swimming at night. But then Susannah's mother becomes troubled by their friendship, and asks the obvious question—What is he doing in Israel?
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At the outset of this affecting novel, Susannah Rabin's world does not extend far beyond the walls of the apartment she shares with her aging mother in Tel Aviv. Despite her artistic talent and her keen powers of observation, Susannah is an anxious, compulsive recluse at 33. Her mother successfully protects her from the volatile outside world, until they are faced with an unexpected houseguest. A handsome and vaguely dangerous cousin from America, the guest shakes up their regimented existence and makes a project of Susannah. As she gradually, inevitably falls in love with him and distances herself from her mother, many of her neuroses fall away, but the changes do not come without consequences of their own. The political turmoil of modern Israel provides an intriguing setting for the trials of this small collection of well-drawn characters, and Susannah's unique and very funny voice--think Dolores Price from Wally Lamb's She's Come Undone --sings clearly through an excellent translation from the original Hebrew. Carrie Bissey
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"Weeping Susannah achieves a remarkable balancing act. It begins as a novel about a woman obsessed only with 'the small details' of her 'inner existence', yet ends up drawing almost every aspect of Israeli reality into its focus" ELENA LAPPIN, Independent "Kimhi's aim is to make a space for introspection and the exploration of depression in a country where life-and-death concerns dominate" ELIANE GLASER, TLS
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