The heat of the Negev Desert is captured in this collection of three novellas. An escaped murderer holds a young woman hostage in House of Bondage. In The Maestro of Yerucham, a Russian violinist who has survived the Nazis and the Soviet regimes finds a young girl he believes to be the heir to his talents. And in Sand Devil, the adolescent son of a fundamentalist family discovers the terrifying secrets of the desert.

MICHAEL B. OREN was born in the United States and immigrated to Israeli in 1979, and today lives in Jerusalem with his wife and three children. He served as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces, and as advisor to the Israel delegation to the UN and to the government of the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. An historian with degrees from Princeton and Columbia, he has written extensively on the Middle East, including Six Days of War, and most recently, Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776-Present, a New York Times bestseller. His commentaries appear in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, Commentary, and The Wall Street Journal.

Publication date: September 2007

Paperback, 280 pp.

ISBN-10 : 1592642128
ISBN-13 : 9781592642120