A psychological tour de force that takes as its subject nothing less than love and the nature of man's soul. The journey brings the supremely rational, coolheaded physician to surrender all his deeply held beliefs when his experience in India awakens an erotic passion that dares to destroy his tidy world as he pursues the illicit love of the administrator's wife. Translated into English from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu.

(Key Words: India, Love, Soul, Doctors, A. B. Yehoshua, Passion, Illicit Love, Adultery, Fiction, Novels).