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Ice

Ice is a destructive journey of insanity and love taking place in different places around the world between the years 1970 and 2031 - the lifetime of the protagonist, Ice. It is a book about obsessive and destructive love, which isn't altered by geographical borders, time or rationalizations. It is love that is at times blissful, but is always on the verge of horror.
Ice is a romantic psychopath, an exposed and obtuse person, a tough and difficult child and a passionate adult. He is passive-aggressive, as cruel as he is compassionate, and he loves as powerfully as he hates. Ice lives in a world that is alienated and violent, and the characters surrounding him seem detached and frustrated as himself.
The novel is narrated in an unconventional way, using varied formats of storytelling and flowing along with its own internal logic and not in an obvious chronological order. Each chapter finds the protagonist at a different stage in his life and stands almost independently from the other chapters in the book.

"A depressing, thrilling novel, well worth reading."
Noa Manheim, Ynet

Israeli Edition:
Title: Ice
Publisher: Gvanim
Publication date: February 1997
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Reading Sample
Read an excerpt from Ice here.



:: CrocAttack
:: Almost Dead
:: Hydromania
:: Moving
:: Sex in the Cemetery
:: Ice
:: Eating Standing Up



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