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Description
The author’s first novel-a dreamlike story of a husband’s obsessive search for his wife’s lover amid the turbulence of the Yom Kippur War. “The story of the search has the elegant symmetry of a cut gem” (New Yorker). Translated by Philip Simpson.
First Sentence
And in the last war we lost a lover.
Table of Contents
Authors & Contributors
- Abraham B. Yehoshua (Author)
- A. B. Yehoshua
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