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Abraham B. Jehoshua

  • A. B. Jehošua
  • א. ב. יהושע
December 19, 1936 – June 14, 2022
Abraham B. Jehoshua
The Lover
The Liberated Bride
A Journey to The End of The Millennium
The Story of Crime and Punishment
Mr. Mani
Friendly Fire
  • Friendly Fire

    A Duet

    • 396 pages
    • 14 hours of reading

    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 managing a team of African researchers digging for the bones of man’s primate ancestors as he desperately strives to detach himself from every shred of his identity, Jewish and Israeli. With great artistry, A. B. Yehoshua has once again 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.

    Friendly Fire
  • Five conversations between two people reconstruct the history of the dying Mani clan, describing the lives of six generations of its members from their emigration from Greece to Palestine in 1848 to the mid-1980s. 10,000 first printing.

    Mr. Mani
  • The Story of Crime and Punishment

    • 104 pages
    • 4 hours of reading
    3.9(18)Add rating

    Desperate to escape his poverty, the poor student Raskolnikov murders his pawnbroker and her sister. At first, nobody suspects him, but his own conscience plagues him incessantly - and it isn't long before a police detective to have his doubts about Raskolnikov's innocence, and is determined to make him confess.

    The Story of Crime and Punishment
  • The Liberated Bride

    • 576 pages
    • 21 hours of reading
    3.8(523)Add rating

    Professor Yohanan Rivlin has two obsessions: the first is to understand the Arab mind; the second is to understand the failure of his elder son's marriage. Rivlin's two quests lead him to extraordinary encounters with very disparate people as he searches out the truth both in politics and life.

    The Liberated Bride
  • A modern classic and international bestseller with more than one million copies in print, The Lover has been celebrated by critics and readers across the globe since its first publication in 1984. Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras's childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In spare yet luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins of Saigon in the waning days of France's colonial empire, and its representation in the passionate relationship between two unforgettable outcasts. This edition of The Lover includes a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen that looks back at Duras's iconic work, winner of France’s Prix Goncourt, as it approaches its fortieth anniversary in print.

    The Lover
  • Abraham B. Jehoschua erzählt in seinem meisterhaft komponierten Roman von einem erfolgreichen Leben und von dem Preis, der dafür gezahlt werden muss. Als der Regisseur Jair Moses zu einer Retrospektive seiner Filme nach Santiago de Compostela eingeladen wird, will er die Reise nach Spanien in Begleitung von Ruth, seiner langjährigen Weggefährtin, genießen. Aber dann ruft ein verstörendes Bild in seinem Hotelzimmer vergessen geglaubte Erinnerungen wach: Eine Filmszene, in der Ruth als junge Frau einem Bettler am Straßenrand die Brust geben sollte, führte zum Zerwürfnis mit dem Drehbuchautor, seinem engsten Freund. Wie konnte es so weit kommen? Die Konfrontation mit seinen alten Filmen, noch dazu in der fremden Sprache, lässt Moses tief in seine Vergangenheit eintauchen und ihn die Ereignisse von damals in einem neuen Licht sehen. Der überwältigende Wunsch nach Versöhnung wird für ihn zum Auslöser für die Auseinandersetzung mit der eigenen Geschichte.

    Spanische Barmherzigkeit
  • Freundesfeuer

    • 475 pages
    • 17 hours of reading

    Amotz hatte kein gutes Gefühl dabei, seine Frau allein auf die Reise zu schicken. Es war noch sehr früh am Morgen, als er vom Flughafen zurück nach Tel Aviv fuhr. Er dachte an Daniela und ihren Schwager Jirmi, den sie nun in Afrika besuchen würde, um mit ihm den Tod seines Sohnes zu betrauern. Vielleicht kam Jirmi deshalb nicht zurück nach Israel. Weil er dort seinen Sohn verloren hatte, der an der Grenze im 'Freundesfeuer' des eigenen Kameraden getötet worden war. Eine schreckliche Geschichte. Aber das Leben der Familie musste ja weitergehen, dachte Amotz, der seine Frau schon jetzt schmerzlich vermisste. Und während die Sonne über Tel Aviv langsam aufging, begann er sich auf den Tag zu freuen und auf das Treffen mit seinem Vater.

    Freundesfeuer
  • Il libro raccoglie tutti i racconti scritti da Yehoshua: dodici storie pervase da atmosfere surreali, in bilico tra sogno e realtà. Il narratore pennella i propri personaggi con distacco, ironia, divertimento; la sua prosa è intensa e coinvolgente e tuttavia leggera. Ancora un volta Yehoshua dimostra il grande talento narrativo che ha fatto di lui uno dei maggiori esponenti della letteratura contemporanea.

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