Zeruya Shalev

Zeruya Shalev (Hebrew: צרויה שלו, born 13 May 1959) is an Israeli author.She has an MA in Bible studies and works as a literary editor at Keshet Publishing House.On 29 January 2004, when she was returning to her home in Rehavia, Jerusalem, after taking her child to kindergarten, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew up a city bus as she was passing by.The novel Love Life was ranked by the German newspaper Der Spiegel among the twenty best novels of the last forty years, alongside works of Saul Bellow and Philip Roth.It has been adapted for the screen as Love Life (German title Liebesleben), a joint 2007 German/Israeli film directed by Maria Schrader.
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