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| Zeruya Shalev |
Late Family |
Tel Aviv, Keshet, 2005
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A woman, who suddenly decides to forsake her husband for brilliant fantasies of freedom and independence, confronts a complicated reality: unexpected isolation, awakening doubts, guilt, sorrow, and the troubles of her small son trying to adapt to a new situation.
Unexpectedly and paradoxically, the family Ella Miller destroys becomes a radiant fantasy in itself, and she sinks into an agonizing longing for the sheltering secure framework of her previous life, even when a new love, both promising and happy, finally comes her way. It goes on even when she tries to build a united family with her new love and his children. The new life turns out to be an unbelievably complicated learning process, a path paved with upsets that at times demand more of her than she ever thought she could give.
Late Family, the third novel in a trilogy (beginning with Love Life and Husband and Wife) attempts to shed light on the overwhelmingly complex world of emotions, on how difficult it is to accept not only the other but oneself, examining to what extent it is possible at mid-life to change, to forgive and to love.
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