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Shulamit LapidJournalist and freelance sleuth Lizzy Badihi is a feminist heroine with big feet and cheap earrings, who gradually grows from an ugly duckling into a swan. She gets involved in a breathless plot that revolves around a double murder. The thread, unravelled by Interpol, leads to Beersheba, a city in Israel's Southern desert, and to two aged French singers. But what does this have to do with Tami Simon, the daughter of local millionaires who are high-ranking arms and property dealers? It's the winter of 1991, at the height of the Gulf War. Between Scud missile alerts, Lizzy helps to solve a murder while putting herself in hair-raising danger.
A rarity that tells us a lot about contemporary Israeli society.
Liberation
An enchanting story, an excellent piece of work.
Notes Bibliographiques
A passionate detective novel, set in a vulnerable society. It is a story that catches your breath.
Tribune Juive
Cynical, funny, suspenseful.
Haaretz
Partial English translation available (for publishers only)
| | | Title | | Bait | | | | Author’s Last Name | | Lapid | | | | Author's First Name | | Shulamit | | | | Language(s) | | German, French, Italian, Chinese, Japanese | | | | Genre | | suspense | | | | Publisher (Hebrew) | | Keter | | | | Year of Publication (Hebrew) | | 1991 | | | | No. Pages | | 227 pp. | | | | Book title - Hebrew (phonetic) | | Pitayon | | | | Representation | | Represented by ITHL | | |
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| Translations | | French: Paris, Fayard, 1995; pback: Paris, Livre de Poche, 1999
German: Munich, Goldmann/ Bertelsmann, 1997; 1998; Munich, Dotbooks, 2016
Japanese: Tokyo, Magazine House, 1998
Chinese: Beijing, Qunzhong, forthcoming
Italilan: Milan, Astoria, 2014 |
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