The Bride Price

Grete Weil

1988

Some time later, two or three months had passed, David sends for me again.

Bathsheba is there, her hair beautifully arranged, very pretty and self-confident. Already the mistress of this palace.

David pushes a stool over to me. Now we are sitting in a half-circle, all three.

“Michal,” says David without being indirect. “Bathsheba is pregnant. You…

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Creator Bio

Grete Weil

1906–1999

Grete Weil was a German novelist, short story writer, and translator. She studied German literature and trained as a photographer. Married in 1932 to the playwright Edgar Weil, when the Nazis came to power she fled with him to Amsterdam. In 1941, Edgar Weil was arrested and died in a concentration camp. Grete Weil survived in hiding and in the postwar years returned to Germany. She was a member of the PEN center of the Federal Republic of Germany. Weil won the Wilhelmine-Lübke Prize in 1980 and the Geschwister-Scholl Prize in 1988.

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