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Friendly Fire: A Duet Paperback - 2009 - 1st Edition
by A. B. Yehoshua
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With great artistry, Yehoshua has written a rich, compassionate, rewarding novel in which sharply rendered details of modern Israeli life and age-old mysteries of human existence echo one another in complex and surprising ways.
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- Title Friendly Fire: A Duet
- Author A. B. Yehoshua
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition New
- Pages 396
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books, New York
- Date 2009-11-11
- Bookseller's Inventory # A26869
- ISBN 9780547247854 / 0547247850
- Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
- Dimensions 7.98 x 5.32 x 0.94 in (20.27 x 13.51 x 2.39 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
A couple, long married, are spending an unaccustomed week apart. Ya'ari, an engineer, is busy juggling the day-to-day needs of his elderly father, his children, and his grandchildren. His wife, Daniela, flies from Tel Aviv to East Africa to mourn the death of her older sister. There she confronts her anguished brother-in-law, Yirmiyahu, whose soldier son was killed six years earlier in the West Bank by friendly fire." Yirmiyahu is now managing a team of African researchers digging for the bones of man’s primate ancestors as he desperately strives to detach himself from every shred of his identity, Jewish and Israeli.
With great artistry, A. B. Yehoshua has once again written a rich, compassionate, rewarding novel in which sharply rendered details of modern Israeli life and age-old mysteries of human existence echo one another in complex and surprising ways.
From the rear cover
"A haunting book about mankind's unity in diversity that will resonate for a long time in the minds of its readers." -- Washington Post Book World "Yehoshua achieves a remarkable artistry" New York Times Book Review A couple, long married, are spending an unaccustomed week apart. Ya'ari, an engineer, is busy juggling the day-to-day needs of his elderly father, his children, and his grandchildren. His wife, Daniela, flies from Tel Aviv to East Africa to mourn the death of her older sister. There she confronts her anguished brother-in-law, Yirmiyahu, whose soldier son was killed six years earlier in the West Bank by "friendly fire." Yirmiyahu is now managing a team of African researchers digging for the bones of man s primate ancestors as he desperately strives to detach himself from every shred of his identity, Jewish and Israeli.
With great artistry, A. B. Yehoshua has once again written a rich, compassionate, rewarding novel in which sharply rendered details of modern Israeli life and age-old mysteries of human existence echo one another in complex and surprising ways. A. B. Yehoshua is one of Israel's preeminent writers. His novels include Journey to the End of the Millennium, The Liberated Bride, and A Woman in Jerusalem, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. "
With great artistry, A. B. Yehoshua has once again written a rich, compassionate, rewarding novel in which sharply rendered details of modern Israeli life and age-old mysteries of human existence echo one another in complex and surprising ways. A. B. Yehoshua is one of Israel's preeminent writers. His novels include Journey to the End of the Millennium, The Liberated Bride, and A Woman in Jerusalem, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. "