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Minotaur

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Author: Benjamin Tammuz
Translator: Kim Parfitt
Translator: Mildred Budny
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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Europa Editions; 1st edition (October 1, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1933372028
  • ISBN-13: 978-1933372020
  • Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.6 x 8.3 inches

An Israeli secret agent falls hopelessly in love with a young English girl. Utilizing his network of shady contacts and his professional expertise, he takes control of her life without ever revealing his identity. Minotaur, named Book of the Year in England in 1981, is a complex and utterly original story about a solitary man driven from one side of Europe to the other by his obsession.

Reviews

"A masterpiece...A great novel of love and desire."
–The Nervous Breakdown

“A novel about the expectations and compromises that humans create for themselves...Very much in the manner of William Faulkner and Lawrence Durrell.”
—The New York Times 

"With echoes of Kafka and Conrad, Israeli novelist Tammuz has fashioned a provocative, spare, slow-to-unfold mystery of character." 
—Kirkus Review

"A largely unrecognized masterpiece."
—Three Monkeys Online

“If the doomed atmosphere that hovers over the romances in Greene and Le Carré is present in Minotaur, so is a flavor that can only be described as more continental, and prose more sensuous than fits into the schemes of those two writers.”
—Boston Phoenix

"The best novel of the year."
—Graham Greene, author of The Quiet American 

Author 

Benjamin Tammuz was born in Russia in 1919 and immigrated to Palestine with his family at the age of five. Tammuz was a sculptor as well as a diplomat, writer, and for many years, literary editor of the Ha'aretz newspaper. His numerous novels and short stories have received many literary prizes. Benjamin Tammuz died in 1989.