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'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'She couldn't have done it and she must have done it.'This is the enigma at the heart of Janet Malcolm's riveting new 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 husband, Daniel Malakov, a respected orthodontist, in the presence of their four-year old child. The prosecutor calls it an act of vengeance: just weeks before Malakov was killed in cold blood, he was given custody of Michelle for inexplicable reasons. It is the'Dickensian ordeal'of Borukhova's innocent child that drives Malcolm's inquiry.With the intellectual and emotional precision for which she is known, Malcolm looks at the trial—'a contest between competing narratives'—from every conceivable angle. It is the chasm between our ideals of justice and the human factors that influence every trial—from divergen

Author

Janet Malcolm

Publisher

New Haven: Yale University Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781283057882

Subjects

Law, Political Science

Rating

3.57 / 5 (407 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14