Murder on a Kibbutz: A Communal Case - Couverture rigide

Translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu. 1994. 350 S. Originalhalbleinen mit Schutzumschlag. Widmungsexemplar. Von der Autorin signiert. Umschlag leicht berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar. - In this, Batya Gur`s third mystery, Israeli policeman Michael Ohayon, now head of the National Division`s Department for Investigation of Serious Crimes, must once again solve a murder that has taken place within a complex, closed society: the kibbutz. The murder by poison of Osnat Harel, beautiful and forceful kibbutz secretary, is a most disturbing one. Told repeatedly that "one who hasn`t lived on a kibbutz can`t possibly understand life there," Ohayon becomes ever more determined to penetrate the spirit of this world he must investigate. Defying his new commander`s orders to use the services of the team he heads, Ohayon works alone, convinced that only through delicate probing of kibbutz life will he uncover the motives behind this strange homicide. Gradually revealing more and more of the kibbutz`s secrets, exposing all the contradictions of this idealized way of life, he learns just how far this now insular, bourgeois society has strayed from the socialist ideals of its founders, satisfying its members` material-but not emotional-needs.