A riveting story set in present-day Israel. Amin, the narrator of Arab origin, is a naturalised Israeli and a surgeon at Tel Aviv's hospital. A bomb explodes in a nearby restaurant and , after treating the injured, Amin learns that the kamikaze was his own wife, Sihem. After years of happy marriage he is unable to grasp that Sihem had a secret anti-Jewish involvement and sets out to discover how and why.
(Jeremy Swann - bwl 39 April 2007 ) |