Binding: Paperback
Description: Following a terrorist explosion on a bus in Jerusalem Yael a married mother who narrowly escaped the attack is haunted by the last image she recalls before the horror: a little blonde child waving to her from the window of the bus and the sound of Beethoven's Ode to Joy which was playing on her car radio. Yael's husband Nachum seems unable or unwilling to understand what she has been through and although her friends and colleagues are sympathetic they cannot share her pain. Still traumatised she feels compelled to seek out the blonde child's grieving father the enigmatic and mysterious Avshalom. Drawn to him through their mutual suffering and fascinated by his unusual background Yael begins to fall helplessly in love with him. Avshalom too cannot deny his own feelings but his belief that the loss of his wife and child is divine punishment for past sins overshadows any glimmer of hope for their future.
Title: Ode To Joy
Author(s): Horn Shifra
Publisher: Little Brown Book Group
Barcode: 9780749936358
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 2/2/2006
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction