Friendly Fire

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2009

ISBN-13: 9780547427553

<DIV><B>&ldquo;A fine novel of loss and hope&rdquo; set in modern Israel and East Africa, from the author of <I>A Woman in Jerusalem</I> (<I>The</I><I>Boston Globe</I>).</B><BR /><BR /> During Hanukkah, Ya&rsquo;ari, an engineer, and his wife, Daniela, are spending an unaccustomed week apart after years of marriage. While he&rsquo;s kept busy juggling the day-to-day needs of his elderly father, his children, and his grandchildren, Daniela flies from Tel Aviv to East Africa to mourn the death of her older sister.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> There she confronts her anguished brother-in-law, Yirmi, whose soldier son was killed six years earlier in the West Bank by &ldquo;friendly fire.&rdquo; Yirmi is now managing a team of African researchers digging for the bones of man&rsquo;s primate ancestors&mdash;as he desperately strives to detach himself from every shred of his identity, Jewish and Israeli.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> From an author who has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, this is &ldquo;a haunting book&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. that will resonate for a long time in the minds of its readers&rdquo; (<I>The Washington Post Book World</I>).<BR /> &#160;<BR /> &ldquo;As in each of his wisely tragicomic novels, Yehoshua orchestrates nearly absurd predicaments that serve as conduits to Israel&rsquo;s confounding conflicts, which so intensely and sorrowfully encapsulate our endless struggle for peace and belonging.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>Booklist</I></DIV>