Scandalously acclaimed: the debut novel of the star author – movingly read by Maria Schrader. We do not know what really happened to the narrator during this six-month period. The young woman, who does not even reveal her name, tells us one story after another. One thing seems clear: she has left her husband and daughter for her lover and is now breaking apart because of it. The mirror she holds up to herself through her storytelling seems to have shattered, with each shard reflecting a different version. Grief, abandonment, fear, and anger make her experience the world as an apocalypse of pain. When this provocative and highly literary lament was published, it sparked furious outrage in Israel. Only now, nearly 30 years later, does it seem that the time is finally right for this early literary masterpiece by a world author. "Only after I wrote 'Fate', my 7th novel, did I dare to read my debut again. I finally felt ready to accept it as part of me, even though it is not me." Zeruya Shalev.