Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial (Malcolm Janet)(Paperback) - diskuze

Prizewinning journalist Janet Malcolm discovers the elements of Greek tragedy in a sensational New York City murder trial "Astringent and absorbing. . . . Iphigenia in Forest Hills casts, from its first pages, a genuine spell -- the kind of spell to which Ms. Malcolm's admirers (and I am one) have become addicted."--Dwight Garner, New York Times"This is shrewd and quirky crime reporting at its irresistible and disabused best."--Louis Begley, Wall Street Journal "She couldn't have done it and she must have done it." This is the enigma at the heart of Janet Malcolm's riveting book about a murder trial in the insular Bukharan-Jewish community of Forest Hills, Queens, that captured national attention. The defendant, Mazoltuv Borukhova, a beautiful young physician, is accused of hiring an assassin to kill her estranged
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