The liberated bride / A.B. Yehoshua ; translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yehoshua, Abraham B., 1936-2022.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Halkin, Hillel, 1939-

Standardized Title:

Kalah ha-meshaḥreret. English

Language:

English

Hebrew

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

568 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, [2003]

Summary:

Yohanan Rivlin, a professor at Haifa University, is a man of boundless and often naive 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.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0151006539

OCLC:

51818539

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