Love Burns

Love Burns by Edna Mazya. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781933372082.

"Endless surprise twists and hilarious scenes. The finale leaves one happily astonished."-Elena Loewenthal, La Stampa "Starts out as a psychological drama and becomes a strange, funny, unexpected hybrid: a farce thriller. A great book."-Maariv Ilan, a middle-aged professor of astrophysics, discovers that his young wife is having an affair. Terrified of losing her, he decides to confront her lover instead. Their meeting ends in the latters murder-the unlikely murder weapon being Ilans pipe-and in desperation, Ilan disposes of the body in the fresh grave of his kindergarten teacher. But when the body is discovered . . . Edna Mazya is one of Israels most lauded and popular playwrights. In 1997 she received the Margalit Prize for her play Family Story. Her plays include The Uncle from Capetown, The Rebels, and Herod. This is her first novel.