WINNER OF THE WELT-LITERATURE AWARD 2012. A profound exploration of family, yearning, compromise and the insistent pull of the past from internationally bestselling Israeli writer Zeruya Shalev.

Zeruya Shalev was born at Kibbutz Kinneret. She is the author of five novels, a book of poetry and a children's book. Her novels Love Life, Man and Woman and Late Family have received critical acclaim both in Israel and abroad and have been bestsellers in several countries. Shalev has been awarded the Book Publishers Association's Gold and Platinum Prizes, the Corine Prize (Germany, 2001), the Amphi Award (France, 2003), the ACUM Prize three times (1997, 2003, 2005), and the French Wizo Prize (2007). Husband and Wife was also nominated for the Femina Prize (France, 2002). A feature film of Love Life, produced in Germany, was released in 2008. Her books have been translated into twenty-five languages and in 2012 she was awarded the prestigious Welt-Literature Award. She lives in Jerusalem. Philip Simpson's published translations from Hebrew to English include The Lover by A.B. Yeshoshua, Where the Jackals Howl by Amos Oz, From These Men by Shimon Peres and A Guide to the Perplexed by Gilad Atzmon. He has also contributed to The Oxford Book of Hebrew Short Stories, New Women's Writing from Israel and Contemporary Israeli Women's Writing, among others. He lives in Norfolk.