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"Elusive, haunting."--New York Times Book Review

"Elusive, haunting."--New York Times Book ReviewA 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... Read Full Overview

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Winner, 2012 Prix du Meilleur Livre tranger

"The greatest Hebrew novelist." -- Jewish Review of Books

An aging Israeli film director has been invited to the pilgrimage city of Santiago de Compostela... Read Full Overview

N J rusalem en 1936, Avraham B. Yehoshua
est actuellement Ma tre de conf rences
en litt rature compar e l'universit de Ha fa.
Ses oeuvres sont traduites en plusieurs langues.
Depuis sa naissance, Isra l demeure une terre
la recherche... Read Full Overview

"Elusive, haunting."--New York Times Book ReviewA 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... Read Full Overview

"Elusive, haunting."--New York Times Book ReviewA 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... Read Full Overview

The author's first novel-a dreamlike story of a husband's obsessive search for his wife's lover amid the turbulence of the Yom Kippur War. "The story of the search has the elegant symmetry of a cut gem" (New Yorker). Translated by Philip Simpson.