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. 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...
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, t...
AB Yehoshua's second novel which immediately consolidated the promise of 'The Lover'. With the publication of this long-out-of-print novel, all of AB Yehoshua's work is now in print with Halban Publishers.
AB Yehoshua's second novel which immediately consolidated the promise of 'The Lover'. With the publication of this long-out-of-print novel, all of AB ...
