by A.B. Yehoshua · Harvest · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780156539128
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«The Lover» is the novel by A.B. Yehoshua, published by Harvest in paperback (368 pages, in English).
A man obsessively searches for his wife's lover during the Yom Kippur War. Through five narrative perspectives, Yehoshua weaves the quest with family and generational tensions and with the conflict between Jews and Arabs, in a dreamlike atmosphere where personal trauma intersects with the political.
First installment of the Love & War trilogy, translated from Hebrew by Philip Simpson; English edition published in 1993.
For readers of literary fiction and Israeli narrative interested in the personal repercussions of war conflicts.
Avraham Gabriel "Boolie" Yehoshua was an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright. The New York Times called him the "Israeli Faulkner". Underlying themes in Yehoshua's work are Jewish identity, the tense relations with non-Jews, the conflict between the older and younger generations, and the clash between religion and politics.
