A serio-comic novel that plunges into the life of Shmulik Gafni, an Israeli professor of Yiddish. Two contrasting motivations plague Gafni: his extended, obsessive search in Poland for the man who murdered his father in the notorious Kielce pogrom, and his infatuation with Malina, a beauteous non-Jewish Polish linguist studying Yiddish. Guess who her private tutor is? Rumors fly. Will synchronicity also fly?

Curt Leviant has authored nine critically acclaimed works of fiction.He has won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award and writing fellowshipsfrom the National Endowment for the Arts, the RockefellerFoundation, the Jerusalem Foundation, the Emily Harvey Foundationin Venice, and the New Jersey Arts Council. His work has beenincluded in Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: the O. HenryAwards, and other anthologies - and praised by two Nobel laureates:Saul Bellow and Elie Wiesel. With the publication of Leviant'snovels into French, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Romanian and otherlanguages - some of which have become international best sellers- reviewers have hailed his books as masterpieces and comparedhis imaginative fiction to that of Nabokov, Borges, Kafka, Italo Calvino,Vargas Llosa, Harold Pinter, and Tolstoy. The French version ofDiary of an Adulterous Woman was singled out as one of the TwentyBest Books of the Year in France and among the seven best novels.Kafka's Son in the French translation was hailed on French televisionas a "work of genius" and by French critics as "a masterpiece."But the most memorable praise has come from ChaunceyMabe, Book Editor of South Florida's Sun-Sentinel, who wrote: "CurtLeviant is one of the greatest novelists you've never heard of. Hisserio-comic novels, including Diary of an Adulterous Woman (thebest novel I've read during the past ten years), should place him incompany with Joseph Heller or even Saul Bellow..."