Open Heart Yehoshua, A.B.

A middle-aged cardiologist becomes obsessed with a woman whose husband he failed to save on the operating table. What begins as professional guilt spirals into something darker — a fixation that consumes him, distorts his judgment, and threatens to unravel his marriage. Yehoshua writes with surgical precision about desire, responsibility, and the dangerous territory between them. Set against the clinical sterility of hospital corridors and the emotional chaos of grief, this is an unflinching portrait of a man who mistakes obsession for love, and connection for absolution. The prose is spare and unsettling, the moral ground constantly shifting beneath your feet. For readers who like their psychological fiction uncomfortable and unsentimental — think Coetzee's intensity with Roth's brutal self-examination.