Description
A husband seeks his wife's lover who is lost in the turbulence of Israel's Yom Kippur War. As the story of his quest unfolds and grows in intensity, the main protagonists are drawn into the search and are transformed by it: through the different perspectives of husband, wife, teenage daughter, and young Arab emerges a complex picture of the uneasy present, the tension between generations, between Israel's past and future, between Jews and Arabs.
'We see an Arab and an Israeli locked into a debate of proximity, alikeness, mental hatred, that Yehoshua's superb ability to render both presences relieves of all sentimentality. What I value most in The Lover is a gift for equidistance - between characters, even between the feelings on both sides.'
Alfred Kazin, New York Review of Books
The Lover was A.B. Yehoshua's first novel and immediately brought him international recognition. It is brilliant, compassionate, and highly original, and as accomplished as all his later works.
About the Author
A. B. YEHOSHUA, born in Jerusalem in 1936, is the author of numerous novels as well as a collection of short stories. He is one of Israel's pre-eminent novelists and has been awarded the prestigious Israel Prize for his lifetime's creative contribution to Israel, the National Jewish Book Award in the U.S., and the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize in the U.K.
Book Information
ISBN 9781870015912
Author A.B. Yehoshua
Format Paperback
Page Count 360
Imprint Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
Publisher Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
Weight(grams) 420g
Dimensions(mm) 196mm * 132mm * 30mm
