A. B Yehoshua
1) The tunnel
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning, internationally acclaimed Israeli author, a suspenseful and poignant story of a family coping with the sudden mental decline of their beloved husband and father-an engineer who they discover is involved in an ominous secret military project"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A civil court in 999 AD France debates bigamy. The plaintiff is a Jewish merchant from Morocco who is contesting the abrogation of a partnership by his nephew. The nephew cut him off because he acquired a second wife. By an Israeli writer, author of Open Heart.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt, Inc
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Rachele Luzzato is twelve years old when she learns her father is gravely ill. While her family plans for her upcoming Bat-Mitzvah, Rachele finds herself cast as the Madonna in her school's Christmas play. Caught between spiritual poles, struggling to cope with her father's mortality, Rachele feels as if the threads of her everyday life are unravelling. A diverse circle of adults are there to guide young Rachele as she faces the difficult passing...
5) Mr. Mani
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
In this novel, a winner of both the National Jewish Book Award and the first Israeli Literature Prize, A. B. Yehoshua weaves a deeply affecting family saga and an portrait of Jewish life over the past two centuries. The story moves backward through time, unfolding over the course of five conversations. On a kibbutz in the Negev in 1982, a student describes her strange meeting with her boyfriend's father, Judge Gavriel Mani. On German-occupied Crete...
6) The lover
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
"The authors first novel-a dreamlike story of a husbands obsessive search for his wifes lover amid the turbulence of the Yom Kippur War. The story of the search has the elegant symmetry of a cut gem." --Discoverbooks.com.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
A father of three grown-up children comes back to Israel to get a divorce another woman, pregnant, awaits him in americanca. Narrated in turn by each participant in the drama, events grow increasingly intense, coming to a head at the traditional family gathering on Passover.
8) The extra
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally acclaimed author of A Woman in Jerusalem, a novel about a musician who returns home and finds the rhythm of her life interrupted and forever changed Noga, 42, a divorcee from Jerusalem, is a harpist with an orchestra in the Netherlands. When her father dies suddenly, she is summoned home by her brother to help make decisions in urgent family and personal matters, among them whether to keep a rent-controlled apartment even...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Leaving her husband at home, Daniela journeys from Tel Aviv to East Africa to mourn the death of her older sister and to confront her grieving brother-in-law, a scientist still struggling with the death of his soldier son in an incident of "friendly fire" on the West Bank
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Unsettled during a retrospective of his early work, aging film director Yair Moses attempts to reconcile with the difficult but brilliant screenwriter from whom he is estranged, but the price that Trigano demands will have lasting consequences.
11) Five seasons
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
The author's daring treatment of nine frenzied days in the life of a troubled Israeli family, Yehoshua's latest novel reconfirms his status as a shrewd analyst of domestic ordeals. Neatly and leisurely divided into "five seasons" following the death of the protagonist's wife of 30 years, this is a genuine and elegant portrait of a widower, Molkho, a middle-aged Sephardi, like his creator, and his heartfelt grief and painfully awkward readjustment...
12) Open heart
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
An Israeli surgeon is asked by his director to treat his daughter and in the process falls in love with the director's wife. After a one-night stand she dismisses him, but he can't forget her, so when he has to perform heart surgery on the director he wonders, save him or not save him?