Born in Jerusalem in 1936, A.B. Yehoshua was the author of twelve novels, a collection of short stories, and several plays and volumes of essays. He has won prizes worldwide and his work has been translated into twenty-eight languages and adapted for film and opera. An outspoken critic of both Israeli and Palestinian policies, he continued to speak about and search for solutions to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
27 Ebooks by A. B. Yehoshua
A. B. Yehoshua: Five Seasons
This tale of an awkward Israeli widower and his misadventures with women is an ‘;extraordinary novel…a masterpiece’ (Los Angeles Times). After seven long years of illness, Molkho’s wife passes, lea …
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A. B. Yehoshua: Woman in Jerusalem
This novel about the struggle to identify a nameless victim in the wake of a terrorist bombing in Israel is “a masterpiece” (Claire Messud, The New York Times Book Review). A woman …
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€15.24
A. B. Yehoshua: Late Divorce
A novel of a Jewish family coming together, and coming apart, by an award-winning “master storyteller” (The Wall Street Journal). “Anyone who has had experience of the sad and subtl …
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€3.83
A. B. Yehoshua: Extra
After her father’s death, a musician must go home to Israel to confront the relationships she left behind in this novel by the author of The Retrospective Noga, forty-two and divorced, is a har …
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€19.28
A. B. Yehoshua: Friendly Fire
“A fine novel of loss and hope” set in modern Israel and East Africa, from the author of A Woman in Jerusalem (The Boston Globe). During Hanukkah, Ya’ari, an engineer, and his wife, …
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€25.52
A. B. Yehoshua: Retrospective
An ageing film director must face his past in the acclaimed Israeli author’s prize-winning novel—“a compelling meditation on art, memory, love [and] guilt” (Independent, UK). …
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€3.84
A. B. Yehoshua: Journey to the End of the Millennium
“A masterpiece” about faith, race, and morality at a medieval turning point, from the National Jewish Book Award winner and “Israeli Faulkner” (The New York Times). It& …
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€23.06
A. B. Yehoshua: Liberated Bride
An Israeli professor and an Arab student join forces in a witty novel that “tells a simple story about a region that complicates all it touches” (The New Yorker). Yochanan Rivlin, a profe …
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€25.52
A. B. Yehoshua: Lover
A man searches for his wife’s lover during the Yom Kippur War, in a novel by the award-winning author hailed as the “Israeli Faulkner” (The New York Times). In Haifa, at the …
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€23.06
A. B. Yehoshua: Mr. Mani
New York Times Notable Book: A story of six generations of a Jewish family, by an author Saul Bellow called “one of Israel’s world-class writers.” In this novel, a winner of …
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€22.98
A.B. Yehoshua: Tunnel
A "spryly amusing [and] deeply affecting" novel of a Tel Aviv family coping with the sudden mental decline of their beloved husband and father (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).A National Je …
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€25.40
A.B. Yehoshua: Friendly Fire
Life in the Ya'ari family is full, complicated and often humorous, but beyond it lies a fragile society deeply uneasy with itself and badly scarred, with each family harbouring its own ghosts. E …
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€7.19
A.B. Yehoshua: A Woman in Jerusalem
Now an award-winning feature film The Human Resources Manager A suicide bomb explodes in a Jerusalem market. One of the victims is a migrant worker without any papers, only a salary slip from the bak …
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€5.99
A.B. Yehoshua: The Liberated Bride
Yochanan Rivlin, a professor of Near Eastern Studies at Haifa University, is determined to understand two conflicts that have become central to his life: the Algerian civil war of the 1990s, which he …
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€5.99
A.B. Yehoshua: Mr Mani
Five conversations, each centring on the fate of a different member of the Sephardi Mani family, make up this profound, far-reaching and passionate Mediterranean novel which tells of six generations …
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€5.99
A.B. Yehoshua: The Lover
A husband seeks his wife’s lover who is lost in the turbulence of Israel’s Yom Kippur War. As the story of his quest unfolds and grows in intensity, the main protagonists are drawn into the search an …
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€4.79
A.B. Yehoshua: A Late Divorce
Yehuda Kaminka, a retired teacher, returns to Israel from the U.S. to divorce his estranged wife who was committed to a mental asylum after she stabbed him. This impending divorce inevitably throws i …
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€4.79
A.B. Yehoshua: Five Seasons
In the autumn, Molkho’s wife dies. His years of loving care have ended and his newfound freedom proves unlike the one he had imagined. It is an uneasy freedom, filled with the erotic fantasies of a m …
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€4.79
A.B. Yehoshua: Open Heart
Open Heart is a psychological tour de fource about love and the nature of man’s soul. From the opening lines of this first-person narrative, the reader is propelled into the mind of Dr. Benjamin Rubi …
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€5.99
A.B. Yehoshua: A Journey to the End of the Millennium
The year is 999 A.D. Christians in Europe are preparing themselves for the arrival of the Messiah at the millennium and religious fervour is in the air. Sailing from the North African port of Tangier …
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A.B. Yehoshua: The Retrospective
An ageing film director, Yair Moses, has been invited to the Spanish pilgrimage city of Santiago de Compostela to attend a retrospective of his early work. As he and Ruth, his leading actress and for …
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€7.19
A.B. Yehoshua: The Extra
An experiment is under way in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: a woman, recently widowed, is starting a trial period in assisted living, mainly to placate her over-anxious son, whilst in Jerusalem her daughte …
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€9.59
A.B. Yehoshua: The Tunnel
Zvi Luria has begun to lose his memory. At the beginning he only makes small mistakes, forgetting first names and taking home the wrong child from his grandson’s kindergarten, but he knows that thing …
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€15.59
A.B. Yehoshua: The Continuing Silence of a Poet
This new edition of A. B. Yehoshua’s novellas and short stories includes two stories which did not previously appear in the hardback edition published in 1988, and no longer includes ‘Mr. Mani’ which …
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€8.39
Devibharathi & Ben Ehrenreich: Cuentos de Asia, Europa & América
La revista Luvina y la Editorial de la Universidad de Guadalajara reúnen estos cien Cuentos de Asia, Europa y América para celebrar el número 100 de Luvina y sus veinticinco años ininterrumpidos de p …
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A.B. Yehoshua: The Only Daughter
Rachele Luzzatto is the only daughter of a Jewish family in northern Italy. Curious and intelligent, she is caught between her interest in religions – her own and others – and her father's viole …
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A.B. Yehoshua: Only Daughter
From the internationally acclaimed, award-winning Israeli author, a stunning novel that brilliantly illuminates a young girl’s crisis of faith and coming of age in Padua, Italy.Rachele Luzzato is twe …
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