A Late Divorce

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Publication Year:
2012

ISBN-13: 9780544135888

<DIV><B>A novel of a Jewish family coming together, and coming apart, by an award-winning &ldquo;master storyteller&rdquo; (<I>The Wall Street Journal</I>).</B><BR /><BR /> &ldquo;Anyone who has had experience of the sad and subtle ways in which human beings torment one another under license of family ties will appreciate the merits of A.B. Yehoshua&rsquo;s <I>A Late Divorce</I>.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>London Review of Books</I><BR /> &#160;<BR /> A powerful story about a family&mdash;and a country &mdash;in crisis. The father of three grown children comes back to Israel to get a divorce from his wife of many years; another woman, newly pregnant, awaits him in America. Narrated in turn by each family member&mdash;husband and wife, sons and daughter, young grandson&mdash;the drama builds to a crescendo at the traditional family gathering on Passover eve.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> &ldquo;Each character here is brilliantly realized.&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. Thank goodness for a novel that is ambitious and humane and that is about things that really matter&rdquo; &mdash;<I>New Statesman</I><BR /> &#160;<BR /> &ldquo;A master storyteller whose tales reveal the inner life of a vital, conflicted nation.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>The Wall Street Journal</I></DIV>