Dearest Anne

A Tale of Impossible Love

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  • An
  • Israeli
  • girl’s
  • coming
  • of
  • age
  • is
  • told
  • through
  • a
  • diary
  • addressed
  • to
  • Anne
  • Frank
  • in
  • this
  • powerful
  • novel—“a
  • temple
  • of
  • love
  • to
  • the
  • imaginary”
  • (Time
  • Out
  • Israel).Love
  • is
  • both
  • the
  • question
  • and
  • the
  • answer
  • in
  • this
  • lyrical
  • novel
  • by
  • one
  • of
  • Israel’s
  • bestselling
  • authors.
  • Returning
  • to
  • her
  • hometown
  • as
  • an
  • adult,
  • Rivi
  • Shenhar
  • discovers
  • a
  • collection
  • of
  • her
  • old
  • diaries—impassioned,
  • plaintive
  • journals
  • she
  • addressed
  • to
  • Anne
  • Frank
  • while
  • growing
  • up
  • in
  • Israel
  • in
  • the
  • 1970s.
  • Reading
  • them
  • takes
  • her
  • back
  • to
  • the
  • isolated,
  • lonely
  • girl
  • she
  • was,
  • living
  • alone
  • with
  • a
  • distant
  • mother,
  • but
  • also
  • to
  • the
  • love
  • affair
  • that
  • changed
  • her
  • life.When
  • her
  • young
  • literature
  • teacher
  • provides
  • an
  • outlet
  • for
  • Rivi’s
  • frustrations,
  • she
  • never
  • imagines
  • that
  • she
  • will
  • fall
  • in
  • love—or
  • that
  • such
  • a
  • turbulent,
  • forbidden
  • relationship
  • could
  • last
  • so
  • long,
  • or
  • become
  • so
  • intimate
  • and
  • erotically
  • charged.
  • Rivi’s
  • transformation
  • from
  • awkward
  • child
  • to
  • confident
  • woman—and
  • writer—is
  • deftly
  • handled,
  • in
  • “metaphoric
  • language
  • that
  • is
  • amazingly
  • sensuous
  • and
  • precise” (Globes).
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