{"product_id":"minotaur-paperback-4","title":"Minotaur - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBenjamin Tammuz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMildred Budny\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eKim Parfitt\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"With echoes of Kafka and Conrad,\" the acclaimed Israeli author of Castle in Spain offers \"a provocative, spare, slow-to-unfold mystery of character\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn the day of his forty-first birthday, Israeli secret agent Alexander Abramov encounters a beautiful young redhead on a city bus. He immediately recognizes her as the woman he has been searching for all his life, the one he has loved forever. Though they have never met, he is certain this young woman named Thea is an essential part of his life's destiny.\u003cbr\u003eUsing all the tricks of his trade and communicating through anonymous letters, Abramov takes control of Thea's life without ever revealing his identity. Soon, Abramov's desperate, dangerous love for a woman half his age consumes everything in its path: time, distance, and rival suitors. And for Thea, keeping her lover safe from the amorous \"Mr. Anonymous\" becomes an obsession of her own. Only Abramov's own story, of a life conditioned by isolation, distrust, violence, and murder, can explain his devastating manipulation of the woman he professes to love.\u003cbr\u003eHailed by Graham Greene as \"the best novel of the year\" upon its initial release in 1981, \u003cem\u003eMinotaur\u003c\/em\u003e is a highly inventive literary thriller.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBenjamin Tammuz \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Russia in 1919 and immigrated to Palestine with his family at the age of five. He was a sculptor as well as a diplomat, a writer, and, for many years, literary editor of the \u003ci\u003eHa'aretz\u003c\/i\u003e newspaper. His numerous novels and short stories have been widely translated from the Hebrew and have received several literary prizes. He died in 1989.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated from the Hebrew by \u003cb\u003eMildred Budny\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eKim Parfitt\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 185\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.2 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 07, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47247608348921,"sku":"9781609451165","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/K0RyQngyOWcvZ3hmbXVPeTZpd1U2dz09.webp?v=1768626828","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/minotaur-paperback-4","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}