Weeping Susannah

First UK edition. 8vo. 391pp. Turquoise cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine; medium-blue endpapers. In a pictorial dust jacket. Translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu.

Author's first novel. Winner of the 1999 Bernstein award for best novel. A visit from a New York cousin upends the cloistered world of a mother-and-daughter household in modern day Israel with a deleterious effect on their former bond. An original, hilariously funny and moving tale of obsession and human frailty. Dramatized as a 2009 miniseries for the Israeli cable TV channel Hot 3. "Kimhi's coming-of-age novel seduces with hypnotic effectiveness." –Lisa Darnell, Guardian