Lover, The
by A. B. Yehoshua (Translated from the Hebrew by Philip Simpson)
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- ISBN 10
- 0385121342
- ISBN 13
- 9780385121347
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Contents appear as new, unopened, unread & unblemished in fine tan boards with DJ displaying moderate surface/edge/wear, as shown, with large hole at bottom of spine.
KIRKUS REVIEW
Owing to the special conditions of its existence, Israel is a hothouse of psychologies, and Yehoshua's talent has been to catalogue them minutely in his fiction. In his first novel to be published here, he presents young and mysterious Gabriel Arditi, who enters the lives of Adam and his wife Asya, a middle-class Israeli couple, shortly before the 1973 war. Within days Gabriel is gone--to the war? killed? Asya had fallen in love with him, Adam had become obsessed with him, reinventing Gabriel as the son he lost in childhood. Asya's fantasies and Adam's compulsive quest to track "the lover" down after the end of the war make up the meat of the book; Yehoshua reduplicates each relationship with different characters, including Adam's young daughter Daft and an Israeli Arab boy he employs in his garage, Na'im. A taut sense of Israeli mood--especially on the Arab-Israeli cusp--is delivered, but it's too swoony a performance in general, too deliberate and microscopic: Yehoshua refuses to draw a single straight line. Evocative but soupy.
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- Eve's Reads (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #2640-31419
- Title
- Lover, The
- Author
- A. B. Yehoshua (Translated from the Hebrew by Philip Simpson)
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Ed, 1st Prtg
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385121342
- ISBN 13
- 9780385121347
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Co., Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1978
- Pages
- 352
- Keywords
- Regional History
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