The Amazing Journey of Volkenbruch into the Embrace of Shiksa

Mom of Moti Volkenbruch dreams of nothing but seeing her younger son married to a decent Jewish girl from a good family. No matter how hard she tries to arrange meetings for her son, she has already gone through all the suitable candidates from Zurich and neighboring cities – it's useless. Moti, of course, will never admit why: firstly, they all remind him of her, his mother, and secondly, he likes his classmate, who is, of course, not Jewish. But one day, he himself declares his unacceptable feelings. His parents send him to Israel to straighten him out. If they only knew where this would lead...

The novel by Swiss writer Thomas Meyer is about the conflict that people face, regardless of where they were born and what culture they grew up in, when they want to live their own life in the modern world without breaking away from their parents' traditions.