The Lover
A.B. Yehoshua
368 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0156539128
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Language: English
Publish: 736758000000
20th CenturyAsiaContemporaryFictionHistorical FictionIsraelJewishLiteratureNovelsWar
A husband’s search for his wife’s lover, lost amid the turbulence of the Yom Kippur War, is the heart of this dreamlike novel. Through five different perspectives, Yehoshua explores the realities and consequences of the affair and the search, laying bare deep-rooted tensions within family, between generations, between Jews and Arabs.