Destiny

A meeting that questions everything: Zeruya Shalev's great novel about fate, control, responsibility, illusions, and love. Atara is married for the second time, to her great love, but recently it seems that Alex is drifting further away from her. Even greater worries plague her regarding their son, an elite soldier who hardly leaves the house after his last deployment. Perhaps to better understand her family, or perhaps to escape from it, Atara seeks out Rachel, her father's first wife, the great taboo of Atara's childhood. The idealist Rachel seems to embody the past – she fought alongside Atara's father in the underground militia against the British and for a Jewish state. However, the encounter between the two women leads to a catastrophe in the present. Masterfully, Zeruya Shalev tells a grand story of love and responsibility.