About the book: 2001 / The novel The Minotaur tells about the everyday life of an Israeli secret agent, into which an all-consuming love for a beautiful girl named Thea bursts. Both the profession, and the time and place of the hero’s activity doom him to search for a way out of the labyrinth of ethnic and cultural confrontations. Benjamin Tammuz (1919, Kharkov - 1989, Tel Aviv) - one of the leading Israeli prose writers, in this fascinating novel revises the ideology that fascinated him in his youth "Canaanim».