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The Liberated Bride

by A. B. Yehoshua

ISBN: 0151006539
ISBN-13: 9780151006533
Format: Hardcover

Summary

Yohanan Rivlin, an Israeli professor, is doing research on the Algerian civil war. When he acquires as a research assistant a newly-married young Arab woman, his interests begin to extend beyond Algeria to matters closer to home. Specifically, his curiosity leads him to a quest for the truth about his son's mysteriously failed marriage.

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"A splendidly realized search for the causes of ruptures that rend families and nations: both timely and timeless."

   -- Kirkus

"The juxtaposition of a failed marriage and the turmoil of Israeli society suggests pointed political commentary, but Yehoshua's portrait of the hesitant courtship...remains, somehow, hopeful."

   -- New Yorker

"THE LIBERATED BRIDE is a magnificent, often comic, and humanely inexorable journey among Israel's Jews and their secret and denies sharers: the Arabs....Yehoshua has written a darkly scintillant comedy...."    -- Richard Eder

   -- New York Times Book Review

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Harcourt
Published date: 2003
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 6.25 x 9.25 inches
Weight: 1.95 pounds
Pages: 544

Publisher's Notes

As Yohanan Rivlin, a professor at Haifa University, embarks on research into turbulent recent Algerian history, with the help of one of his students, a young Arab bride from a Galilee village, he becomes obsessed with his son's failed marriage.

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