"Combustive." --Esquire - "This novel should come with an X rating." --Los Angeles Times - "All intensity and desire...will have you turning the pages as fast as you can." --Chicago Review of Books - "A new spin on forbidden lust." --Debutiful For readers of Luster, All Fours, and Vladimir: a provocative, sexy, and unflinchingly candid novel about a white-hot relationship and the two complicated people who emerge from it transformed.
Noa Simon is a thirty-six-year-old filmmaker who knows what she wants, and when she meets Teddy Rosenfeld, an antagonistic, older CEO, she goes for the jugular. An electrifying encounter in a bathroom stall after their first meeting only serves to whet Noa's appetite, and despite Teddy's subsequent rejections, she is exhilarated by the challenge--and by her own insatiability. In her first power play, she takes a job at his office, setting up a battle of wills that Teddy proves unable to resist. Their ravenous, volatile romance will ultimately unearth difficult secrets from both of their pasts and finally force Noa to reckon with her deepest desires and most destructive impulses.
Written with visceral intensity and voyeuristic precision, Rosenfeld is an unputdownable story of sexual abandon that titillates and interrogates in equal measure.
About the Author :
Maya Kessler is a writer, film director, and producer. Kessler studied arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. She currently works as a filmmaker for a global oncology company, alongside writing and developing original content for the international television market.
Review :
"Listen up fans of Luster and Vladimir, because you'll want to mark the release date for Maya Kessler's new novel... Rosenfeld is all intensity and desire, making for a reading experience that will have you turning the pages as fast as you can to see where it will take you next."--Chicago Review of Books "[Kessler] has a mastery of the sex scene...This novel should come with an X rating... To say that Noa makes Isadora Wing of Fear of Flying look like a prude is an understatement. She's utterly insatiable, and Teddy knows exactly how to please and to play her. ... In this dynamic, sex is power, and it's anybody's guess as to who will end up on top."--Los Angeles Times
"A kinky, moving new novel... Kessler is excellent at depicting the way lovers forcibly burrow into each other to find hidden truths. Love, in this novel, is tearing open the beloved's closet door to let their skeletons air. Kessler's writing is at once casual and precise... A smart, readable novel about messy people falling agonizingly in love, and having a lot of fun in the sack along the way."--The Jewish Book Council
"At times sexy, at times hilarious, this book offers a new spin on forbidden lust. . . . [Rosenfeld] challenged me to think about frequented themes in new and unexpected ways."--Debutiful
"An intoxicating and exciting siphoning of power, romance, and desire that will keep your heart pounding and mind lingering."--Our Culture
"While this book is not recommended for human resources personnel or underage readers, the rest of us can enjoy this well-told tale of a ravenous romance set in Israel."--Hadassah Magazine
"[For] fans of 'Sex and the City, ' Raven Leilani's Luster, and Coco Mellor's Cleopatra and Frankenstein."--The Millions
"Raw... the characters come alive during the sex scenes, their desire for each other radiating off the page."--Publishers Weekly
"An erotic obsession [that] becomes all-consuming... X-rated."--Kirkus Reviews
"A confidently written, graphic and enthralling book." --Kveller
"A romantic novel on the verge of erotic which cleverly plays with the genre's formulas."--Calcalist
"Kessler's debut novel is an erotic romance with twists, humor and sophistication that doesn't follow the rules--neither literary rules, nor the new laws of relationships."--Haaretz
