{"product_id":"9781466803718","title":"Be My Knife: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe international bestseller: a compelling love story from the leading Israeli novelist of his generation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"We could be like two people who inject themselves with truth serum, and at long last have to tell it--the truth.  I want to be able to say to myself, 'I bled truth with her,' yes, that's what I want.  Be a knife for me, and I, I swear, will be a knife for you.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn awkward, neurotic seller of rare books writes a desperate letter to a beautiful stranger whom he sees at a class reunion.  This simple, lonely attempt at seduction begins a love affair of words between Yair and Miriam, two married, middle-aged adults, dissatisfied with their lives, yearning for the connection that has always eluded them--and, eventually, reawakened to feelings that they thought had passed them by.  Their correspondence unfolds into an exchange of their most naked confessions: of desire, childhood tragedies, joys, and humiliations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough the dialogue between Yair--a family man and surprisingly successful adulterer, whose complex, guarded letters reveal a life of secrets kept from the people closest to him--and Miriam, at first deceptively open and warm, who fills her life with distraction to avoid a past full of painful secrets, \u003ci\u003eBe My Knife\u003c\/i\u003e explores the nature and the limits of intimacy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA deep departure from David Grossman's previous work, \u003ci\u003eBe My Knife\u003c\/i\u003e is his subtlest, most passionate novel yet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129816465648,"sku":"9781466803718","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466803718_p0.jpg?v=1769890880","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466803718","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}