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In the year 999, when Ben Attar, a Moroccan Jewish merchant, takes a second wife, he commits an act whose unforeseen consequences will forever alter his family, his relationships, his business-his life. In an attempt to forestall conflict and advance his business interests at the same time, Ben Attar undertakes his annual journey to Europe with both his first wife and his new wife. The trip is the beginning of a profound human drama whose mora...

Dopo appena un anno di matrimonio Galia ha ripudiato il marito Ofer. Che segreto inconfessabile si nasconde dietro il loro divorzio? Yohanan Rivlin, padre di Ofer, non si è mai rassegnato all'infelicità del figlio, ed è deciso a scoprire la verità a qualunque costo. Ma il professore ebreo non riuscirà a risolvere il mistero da solo, e gli arabi, temuti e amati, arriveranno ad aiutarlo. Ambientato tra il 1998 e il 1999, quando ancora erano vive...

Elusive, haunting."-New York Times Book Review 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. "[A] profound study of personal and political trauma." -Daily ...

Sullo sfondo di una Haifa scossa dalla guerra del 1973, si dipana lo scenario de L'amante, il più sinceramente israeliano dei romanzi di Yehoshua. L'autore si affida alle voci dei suoi personaggi, ai loro sogni, ai ricordi, ai desideri, alle aspettative: sono le parole di Adam, agiato proprietario di una grande officina meccanica, le riflessioni della figlia Dafi, quindicenne insonne e ribelle, i sogni della moglie Asya, intellettuale precocem...

With great artistry, Yehoshua has written a rich, compassionate, rewarding novel in which sharply rendered details of modern Israeli life and age-old mysteries of human existence echo one another in complex and surprising ways.

De Israëlische Noga is harpiste bij het Gelders Orkest. Ze leidt een rustig leven in Arnhem, totdat ze door omstandigheden is gedwongen een aantal maanden terug te keren naar Jeruzalem. In de wijk waar ze is opgegroeid en waar ze tot haar scheiding heeft gewoond, is veel veranderd. De oude bewoners hebben plaatsgemaakt voor een steeds grotere groep ultra-orthodoxe Joden met hun traditionele zwarte gewaden. Om de tijd te doden en wat geld bij t...

Un terrorista suicida se inmola en el mercado de JerusalÚn. Una mujer muere. Nadie se presenta en la morgue de Monte Scopus para reclamar su cadßver.

Nella settimana che precede la Pasqua, torna in Israele Kaminka, padre di tre figli ormai sposati, e marito di una donna chiusa da anni in manicomio. Abita negli Stati Uniti, ha una nuova compagna e aspetta un figlio. Sono dunque le pratiche del divorzio che Kaminka deve avviare, ma il rientro in patria e in famiglia non avviene senza traumi. Davanti a un avvenimento così grave, vengono a galla i nodi irrisolti, le vecchie ferite, scatenando u...

A couple, long married, are spending an unaccustomed week apart. Ya'ari, an engineer, is busy juggling the day-to-day needs of his elderly father, his children, and his grandchildren. His wife, Daniela, flies from Tel Aviv to East Africa to mourn the death of her older sister. There she confronts her anguished brother-in-law, Yirmiyahu, whose soldier son was killed six years earlier in the West Bank by "friendly fire." Yirmiyahu is now managin...

What is the relationship between literature and morality? Theater and ethics? Film and moral values? It has become unfashionable for today's critics to make even fleeting references to the moral issues raised by novels, stories, plays, and films. The renowned Israeli novelist and critic Abraham B. Yehoshua considers these crucial questions and illuminates his reading of nine texts -- from the story of Cain and Abel to Camus, from Dostoyevsky t...

In the autumn, Molkho's wife dies and his years of loving attention are ended. But his newfound freedom is filled with the erotic fantasies of a man who must fall in love. Winter sees him away to the operas of Berlin and a comic tryst with a legal advisor who has a sprained ankle. Spring takes him to Galilee and an underage Indian girl. Jerusalem in the summer presents him with an offer from an old classmate to seduce his infertile wife. And t...

From an award-winning author comes a national bestseller of forbidden passion, obsession, and spiritual yearning. When an ambitious young Israeli internist accompanies a hospital administrator and his wife on a trip to India, the long journey awakens in him an erotic passion that dares to destroy his tidy world.

A deeply affecting six-generational family saga that extends from 19th-century Greece and Poland to modern Israel. The narrative moves backward in time through five conversations about the bizarrely fated Mani family, climaxing in Athens in 1848 with an overpowering tale. A Notable Book of the Year. Part of the Harvest in Translation series.

A father of three grown-up children comes back to Israel to get a divorce, another woman, pregnant, awaits him in America. Narrated in turn by each participant in the drama, events grow increasingly intense, coming to a head at the traditional family gathering on Passover. Translated by Hillel Halkin.