The Retrospective Hardcover - 2013 - 1st Edition
by Yehoshua, A. B
- Used
- Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of A Woman in Jerusalem, a novel about a director, a screenwriter and an actress, old friends and colleagues who meet up for the first time in decades in Santiago de Compostela, and are forced to face the demons that undid them years before, and the ones haunting them now.
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- Title The Retrospective
- Author Yehoshua, A. B
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York
- Date 2013-03-05
- Bookseller's Inventory # D63908
- ISBN 9780547496962 / 0547496966
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.6 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 4.06 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Israel, Motion picture producers and directors
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
Winner, Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
An aging Israeli film director has been invited to the pilgrimage city of Santiago de Compostela for a retrospective of his work. When Yair Moses and Ruth, his leading actress and longtime muse, settle into their hotel room, a painting over their bed triggers a distant memory in Moses from one of his early films: a scene that caused a rift with his brilliant but difficult screenwriter—who, as it happens, was once Ruth’s lover. Upon their return to Israel, Moses decides to travel to the south to look for his elusive former partner and propose a new collaboration. But the screenwriter demands a price for it that will have strange and lasting consequences.
A searching and original novel by one of the world’s most esteemed writers, The Retrospective is a meditation on mortality and intimacy, on the limits of memory and the struggle of artistic creation.
