Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Yehoshua, A.B. |
| Publisher: | HarperVia |
| Date: | 5/7/1993 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
“Anyone who has had experience of the sad and subtle ways in which humanbeings torment one another under license of family ties will appreciatethe merits of A.B. Yehoshua’s A Late Divorce.” —London Review of Books
A powerful story about a family—and a country —in crisis.
The father of three grown children comes back to Israel to get a divorcefrom his wife of many years; another woman, newly pregnant, awaits himin America. Narrated in turn by each family member—husband and wife,sons and daughter, young grandson—the drama builds to a crescendo at thetraditional family gathering on Passover Eve.
“Each character here is brilliantly realized . . . Thank goodness for anovel that is ambitious and humane and that is about things that reallymatter”—New Statesman
“A master storyteller whose tales reveal the inner life of a vital, conflicted nation.” — Wall Street Journal
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