Secular, worldly, self-questioning and ironic, Israel's most contentious writer may have written his most important novel yet, a searing account of a marriage, two sons anda doomed love affair from the six-day war in 1967 to an army operation in the occupied territories in 2003.
"But I think at the end of the day it's just a lot of people getting excited about what they loveand coming together to celebrate it with other people who love the same thing, " she said.