Novels
- Early in the Summer of 1970 (1970)
- Three Days and a Child (1971)
- The Lover (1978)
- A Late Divorce (1984)
- Five Seasons (1988)
- Mr. Mani (1992)
- Open Heart (1996)
- A Journey to the End of the Millennium (1998)
- The Liberated Bride (2003)
- A Woman in Jerusalem (2006)
- Friendly Fire (2008)
- The Retrospective (2013)
- The Extra (2016)
- The Tunnel (2020)
- The Only Daughter (2022)
Collections
- The Continuing Silence of a Poet (1990)
Plays
Graphic Novels
- The Story of Crime and Punishment (2014)
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A B Yehoshua Books Overview
The Lover
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.
A Late Divorce
A father of three grown up children comes back to Israel to get a divorce; another woman, pregnant, awaits him in America. Narrated in turn by each participant in the drama, events grow increasingly intense, coming to a head at the traditional family gathering on Passover. Translated by Hillel Halkin.
Five Seasons
In the autumn, Molkho’s wife dies. His years of loving care have ended and his newfound freedom proves unlike the one he had imagined. It is uneasy, filled with the erotic fantasies of a man who must fall in love, but whose longing for meaningful relationships is held hostage by the spirit of his wife. Winter sees him in Berlin in a comic encounter with a legal adviser from his office in Haifa. Spring takes him to the Galilee and an impossible infatuation. Jerusalem in the summer brings another man’s wife and an extraordinary request. And the following autumn there is Nina whose yearning for her Russian home brings Molkho back to life. ‘In this finely observed and oddly moving comic novel…
Yehoshua makes us feel Molkho’s humanity and deftly wins him our sympathy.’ Kirkus
Mr. Mani
Mr Mani is a profound and passionate epic, chronicling six generations of a Sephardi Jewish family from the mid nineteeth century to the present. A B Yehoshua captures the reader’s imagination through a series of five conver sations, beginning with the present and delving back to the less familiar past. Imaginatively constructed, the novel is a rich interweaving of history, psycho analysis and poetry, with the city of Jerusalem both spiritual and temporal as the focal point of each episode, as the story moves back and forth between Europe and Jerusalem.
Open Heart
In this astonishing work about love in all its forms Washington Post Book World, an ambitious young doctor accompanies his superior to India, where he discovers an illicit passion that threatens to destroy his orderly world.
A Journey to the End of the Millennium
In the year 999, when Ben Attar, a Moroccan Jewish merchant, takes a second wife, he commits an act whose unforeseen consequences will forever alter his family, his relationships, his business his life. In an attempt to forestall conflict and advance his business interests at the same time, Ben Attar undertakes his annual journey to Europe with both his first wife and his new wife. The trip is the beginning of a profound human drama whose moral conflicts of fidelity and desire resonate with those of our time. Yehoshua renders the medieval world of Jewish and Christian culture and trade with astonishing depth and sensuous detail. Through the trials of a medieval merchant, the renowned author explores the deepest questions about the nature of morality, character, codes of human conduct, and matters of the heart.
The Liberated Bride
Yohanan Rivlin, a professor at Haifa University, is a man of boundless and often na ve curiosity. His wife, Hagit, a district judge, is tolerant of almost everything but her husband’s faults and prevarications. Frequent arguments aside, they are a well adjusted couple with two grown sons. When one of Rivlin’s students a young Arab bride from a village in the Galilee is assigned to help with his research in recent Algerian history, a two pronged mystery develops. As they probe the causes of the bloody Algerian civil war, Rivlin also becomes obsessed with his son’s failed marriage. Rivlin’s search leads to a number of improbable escapades. In this comedy of manners, at once deeply serious and highly entertaining, Yehoshua brilliantly portrays characters from disparate sectors of Israeli life, united above all by a very human desire for, and fear of, the truth in politics and life.
A Woman in Jerusalem
A woman in her forties is a victim of a suicide bombing at a Jerusalem market. Her body lies nameless in a hospital morgue. She had apparently worked as a cleaning woman at a bakery, but there is no record of her employment. When a Jerusalem daily accuses the bakery of ‘gross negligence and inhumanity toward an employee,’ the bakery’s owner, overwhelmed by guilt, entrusts the task of identifying and burying the victim to a human resources man. This man is at first reluctant to take on the job, but as the facts of the woman’s life take shape she was an engineer from the former Soviet Union, a non Jew on a religious pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and, judging by an early photograph, beautiful he yields to feelings of regret, atonement, and even love. At once profoundly serious and highly entertaining, A. B. Yehoshua astonishes us with his masterly, often unexpected turns in the story and with his ability to get under the skin and into the soul of Israel today. 20061105
Friendly Fire
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.
The Continuing Silence of a Poet
This collection of ten short stories represents almost 30 years of the author’s career, including some of his most popular works. The title story is about an ageing poet who cannot write as the times demand, but his mentally handicapped son can.
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