"One of the most Important Writers of Our Generation...[In The Women My Father Knew] Liebrecht Legitimizes the return to ourselves, to our personal biography."---"Liebrecht knows how to delve into the archaeological layers of her characters...She empathizes with them and she loves them---and love is contagious."---Modern Hebrew Literature<BR><BR>Thirty-year-old Meir is living in New York, a bachelor, unable to make a commitment. He's the author of a successful novel, but unable to write another---the page is as blank as his empty life. He feels he is at a dead end.<BR><BR>Then his mother tells him that his father, a poet and charmer of women, who supposedly died in Israel decades earlier, is still alive and wants to see him. Fragmented, troubling memories of a forgotten childhood time spent alone with his father rise into Meir's consciousness: swirling floodwater, a man hiding from the Gestapo, a lewd woman flirting, a bloodstained sheet. What had happened then? Why had his father disappeared? Meir imagines a different scenario for each bit of information his mother reveals. To solve the riddles of the past, he meets his father in Tel Aviv. What Meir finds there lies in the secret heart of his child self---a seven-year-old boy who witnessed a seduction and perhaps a terrifying murder.<BR><BR>Set in New York and in bohemian Tel Aviv, here is a mesmerizing literary and psychological mystery by one of Israel's most respected authors.