num_pages: 272
description: A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA fevered storyteller and a captive audience revisit the past in both of David Grossman's novellas, trying to make sense of a betrayal that neither one can put to rest. In Frenzy, a reserved and respectable man draws his sister-in-law into a paranoid conviction---that his wife is having an affair. In the title novella, a successful but embittered novelist delivers a merciless account of her dying mother's love affair with a much younger teenage boy. "Suffused with delirious tension and characters more substantial than in most novels twice its size" (The Village Voice), Her Body Knows is a disquieting journey into the nature of infidelity and desire.
language: English
title: Her Body Knows
titlecomplete: Her Body Knows
genres: Jewish, Short Stories, Unfinished, Novels, Israel, Literature, Roman, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 643
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Koret Jewish Book Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Picador