Butterfly in the Barn

Successful writer Elisha Friedrich discovers that his recently completed manuscript has been published under someone else's name. There can be no mistake – it is his text. Overcome with anger, the author hires a detective to find out who did this.
But the book by contemporary Israeli writer Shulamit Lapid is not a classic detective novel. The criminal is known almost from the start, and the reader is left to follow how the investigation leads to him, and to watch how the plot twists unfold, what passions rule in the literary world and within the family circle.