Be My Knife

First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 307, [1]. Black cloth boards with copper gilt titles to spine; black endpapers. Sewn-in silk ribbon marker. Dustjacket design by William Webb with cover photo by Wanda Wulz. Signed and dated by Author to title-page.

Translated from the Hebrew by Vered Almog and Maya Gurantz. Originally published in 1998 under the title She-tihyi li ha-sakin, by Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House Ltd, Tel Aviv.

Author's fifth novel. An awkward, neurotic dealer in rare books writes a "restrained suicide note" to a mysterious woman glimpsed at a class reunion, resulting in an exchange of their innermost desires. A tale of unrequited love with a twist in its tail. By the 2017 Man Booker International Prize for A Horse Walks into a Bar. In 2018, he was awarded the Israel Prize for Literature, the state's highest cultural honour. "A transformative work of art... As the love affair moves toward its dénouement certain passages demand to be reread, as if one can't believe the pure, intuitive truth they contain." –New York Times Book Review