The Lover

Abraham B. Yehoshua

Doubleday, 1978 - Fiction - 352 pages

A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice
Winner, 2012 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger
The greatest Hebrew novelist. Jewish Review of Books
An aging Israeli film director has been invited to the pilgrimage city of Santiago de Compostela for a retrospective of his work. When Yair Moses arrives, a painting over his bed triggers a distant memory from one of his early films: a scene that caused a rift with his brilliant but difficult screenwriter. Upon his return to Israel, Moses decides to travel to the south to look for his elusive former partner and propose a new collaboration. But the screenwriter demands a price for it that will have strange and lasting consequences.
A searching and original novel by one of the world s most esteemed writers, The Retrospective is a meditation on mortality and intimacy, on the limits of memory and the struggle of artistic creation.
[The Retrospective] moved me deeply. Vivian Gornick, The Nation
[Yehoshua] achieves an autumnal tone as he ruminates on memory s slippery hold on life and on art. The New Yorker
Translated by Stuart Schoffman
A. B. Yehoshua is the author of numerous novels, including Mr. Mani, Five Seasons, The Liberated Bride, and A Woman in Jerusalem. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages, and he has received numerous awards worldwide, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Jewish Book Award. He lives in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Author photograph (c) Leonardo Cendamo
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Contents

• Section 1: 3
• Section 2: 14
• Section 3: 16

About the author

Abraham B. Yehoshua, known commonly as A.B. Yehoshua, was born in Jerusalem on December 19, 1936. He studied Hebrew literature and philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has taught at high-school and university levels and is currently a professor of literature at Haifa University. He is a novelist, essayist, and playwright. His first book of stories, The Death of the Old Man, was published in 1962. His novels include Mr. Mani, Open Heart, Five Seasons, and Friendly Fire. He won the Israeli Prize in 1994.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Lover; Irwin T. and Shirley Holtzman Israeli Literature Collection
• Author: Abraham B. Yehoshua
• Publisher: Doubleday, 1978
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Mar 19, 2008
• ISBN: 0385121342, 9780385121347
• Length: 352 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Historical / 20th Century / World War II; Fiction / Jewish; Fiction / Media Tie-In; Literary Criticism / General