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A. B. Yehoshua
The Liberated Bride Reprint edition
A. B. Yehoshua
Yochanan Rivlin, a professor at Haifa University, is a man of boundless and often naïve 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.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | October 1, 2004 |
ISBN13 | 9780156030168 |
Publishers | Mariner Books |
Pages | 576 |
Dimensions | 140 × 26 × 210 mm · 589 g |
Language | English |
Contributor | Hillel Halkin |
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