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Open Heart Paperback - 1997

by A. B. Yehoshua

From an award-winning author comes a national bestseller of forbidden passion, obsession, and spiritual yearning. When an ambitious young Israeli internist accompanies a hospital administrator and his wife on a trip to India, the long journey awakens in him an erotic passion that dares to destroy his tidy world.


Summary

“Seductively heady . . . Ingeniously explores the unfathomable mysteries of the heart.” —Philadelphia Inquirer

A young Israeli intern vying for the position of surgeon learns that his internship has been terminated and he has been chosen to accompany the hospital administrator and his wife on a trip to India. There, the couple intend to retrieve their ailing daughter and bring her back to Israel. The long journey awakens urges in the young doctor that will threaten his carefully contained world.

Juxtaposing Western realism and Eastern mysticism, Open Heart is an “astonishing work about love in all its forms. [One that] speaks across the barriers of translation and culture to readers everywhere” (Washington Post Book World).

“At times incantatory and magical, sometimes disturbing, and often astonishing . . . Entertains the mind while it captivates the soul.” —Seattle Times

"Mind-expanding and poetic, a book that will stay with you long after you have turned its final page.” —New York Times

From the publisher

"Seductively heady . . . Ingeniously explores the unfathomable mysteries of the heart." --Philadelphia Inquirer A young Israeli intern vying for the position of surgeon learns that his internship has been terminated and he has been chosen to accompany the hospital administrator and his wife on a trip to India. There, the couple intend to retrieve their ailing daughter and bring her back to Israel. The long journey awakens urges in the young doctor that will threaten his carefully contained world. Juxtaposing Western realism and Eastern mysticism, Open Heart is an "astonishing work about love in all its forms. [One that] speaks across the barriers of translation and culture to readers everywhere" (Washington Post Book World). "At times incantatory and magical, sometimes disturbing, and often astonishing . . . Entertains the mind while it captivates the soul." --Seattle Times "Mind-expanding and poetic, a book that will stay with you long after you have turned its final page." --New York Times

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  • Title Open Heart
  • Author A. B. Yehoshua
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 512
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harpervia, Orlando, FL
  • Date 1997-05-01
  • ISBN 9780156004848 / 0156004844
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.3 x 1.3 in (20.32 x 13.46 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Adultery, Internists
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97002507
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • New York Times, 08/10/1997, Page 24
  • Publishers Weekly, 03/24/1997, Page 0
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