Winner of Israel's Sapir Prize for Literature

"A very wise book, and it is written in the most beautiful, precise and definative prose."-Ha'aretz Literary Supplement

"Sometimes one had the experience of reading a book and just falling in love with it-because it is so well written, so moving, it gets into your soul. That was my experience when I read The Confessions of Noa Weber."-Eleonora Lev, Ha'aretz Literary Supplement

Acclaimed author Noa Weber has a successful "feminist" life: a strong career, a wonderful daughter she raised alone, and she is a recognized and respected cultural figure. Yet her interior life is bound by her obsessive love for one man-Alek, a Russian migr and the father of her child, who has drifted in and out of her life.

Trying to understand-as well as free herself from-this lifelong obsession, Noa turns her pen upon herself, and with relentless honesty dissects her life. Against the evocative setting of turbulent, modern-day Israel, this examination becomes a quest to transform irrational desire into a greater, transcendent understanding of love.

The Confessions of Noa Weber introduces a startlingly talented writer in a rich tale that illuminates the desires, yearnings, and complexities of life in Israel.

Gail Hareven is one of Israel's leading writers; the author of five novels, three story collections, plays, nonfiction, and children's books; and the winner of the prestigious Sapir Prize for Literature. She teaches writing and feminist theory in Jerusalem. This is her first book translated into English.