William’s Wife Shalash the latest translation of a

the latest translation of a novel by the late Nobel laureate for literature

it follows two people - a man and a woman - and their many attempts to hook up together

But for far too long her unmistakable voice

+ reviews by Michael Trapp

William’s Wife Shalash the latest translation of aWhen Jane marries the elderly grocer William Chirp, she thinks she has moved up into the comfort of middle class. Instead, she discovers that William exerts a control over her life that forces her to live like a prisoner. His tight fistedness and suspicions so affect Jane that even after his death, she finds herself trapped in a penny pinching paranoia and resorts to scavenging for food out of garbage bins and taking her silverware with her everywhere