A.B. Yehoshua / Abraham B. Yehoshua

• Feb-1984
• / General Fiction

A novel of a Jewish family coming together, and coming apart, by an award-winning "master storyteller" (The Wall Street Journal). "Anyone who has had experience of the sad and subtle ways in which human beings torment one another under license of...

• Jan-1989
• / General Fiction

In the autumn, Molkho's wife dies and his years of loving attention are ended. But his newfound freedom is filled with the erotic fantasies of a man who must fall in love. Winter sees him away to the operas of Berlin and a comic tryst with a legal ad...

• Mar-1991
• / General Fiction

This collection of ten short stories represents almost 30 years of the author's career, including some of his most popular works. The title story is about an ageing poet who cannot write as the times demand, but his mentally handicapped son can....

• Feb-1992
• / General Fiction

Mr. Mani is a deeply affecting six-generation family saga, extending from nineteenth century Greece and Poland to British-occupied Palestine to German-occupied Crete and ultimately to modern Israel. The narrative moves through time and is told in fiv...

• May-1993
• / General Fiction

“Elusive, haunting.” -- New York Times Book ReviewA husband’s search for his wife’s lover, lost amid the turbulence of the Yom Kippur War, is the heart of this dreamlike novel. Through five different perspectives, Yehoshua explores the real...

• Apr-1996
• / General Fiction

“Seductively heady . . . Ingeniously explores the unfathomable mysteries of the heart.” -- Philadelphia InquirerA young Israeli intern vying for the position of surgeon learns that his internship has been terminated and he has been chosen to a...

• Jan-1999
• / General Fiction

In the year 999, when Ben Attar, a Moroccan Jewish merchant, takes a second wife, he commits an act whose unforeseen consequences will forever alter his family, his relationships, his business-his life. In an attempt to forestall conflict and advance...

• Oct-2004
• / General Fiction

An Israeli professor and an Arab student join forces in a witty novel that "tells a simple story about a region that complicates all it touches" (The New Yorker). Yochanan Rivlin, a professor at Haifa University, is a man of boundless and often n...

• Aug-2007
• / General Fiction

A woman in her forties is a victim of a suicide bombing at a Jerusalem market. Her body lies nameless in a hospital morgue. She had apparently worked as a cleaning woman at a bakery, but there is no record of her employment. When a Jerusalem daily ac...

• Nov-2008
• / Literary

A couple, long married, are spending an unaccustomed week apart. Amotz, an engineer, is busy juggling the day-to-day needs of his elderly father, his children, and his grandchildren. His wife, Daniella, flies from Tel Aviv to East Africa to mourn the...

• Mar-2013
• / General Fiction

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...

• Jun-2016
• / Literary

From Israel’s highly acclaimed author, a novel about a musician who returns home and finds the rhythm of her life interrupted and forever changed

 Noga, forty-two and a divorcee, is a harpist with an orchestra in the Netherlands. Upon the s...

• Oct-2016
• / Mystery

You should go to a street corner and get down on your knees and tell the whole world: "I have sinned."

Raskolnikov is a poor student living in St Petersburg. Desperate to escape his poverty, he murders his pawnbroker and her sister, and flees ...

• Aug-2020
• / Literary

A "spryly amusing [and] deeply affecting" novel of a Tel Aviv family coping with the sudden mental decline of their beloved husband and father (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).A National Jewish Book Award Finalist Until recently, Zvi Luria was a h...

• Apr-2023
• / General Fiction

“An old-fashioned book, free of cynicism, encroaching technology and intricate plotting, but imbued with a heartfelt and optimistic view of humanity -- in other words, a book filled with feeling and moral values.” -- New York Times Book ReviewFro...