A. B. Yehoshua's "The Lover"

On this episode, Marcela highlights The Lover, the first novel by A. B. Yehoshua, which he wrote in 1977. Yehoshua has been called the Israeli Faulkner, perhaps because of this novel. It is narrated from the point of view of each of its six main characters.

Text

The Lover by A. B. Yehoshua. Translated by Philip Simpson. Doubleday & Co., 1978.

https://tlv1.fm/arts-culture/2015/07/22/a-b-yehoshuas-green-seas-and-yellow-continents/

https://tlv1.fm/israel-in-translation/2020/08/12/the-tunnel/

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A. B. Yehoshua's "The Lover"

David Grossman's "The Desire to Be Gisella"

Dory Manor's "The Language Beneath the Skin"

Jews and Words

Meir Shalev's "The Blue Mountain"

The Poetry of Avot Yeshurun

Ayelet Tsabari's "Savta"

Meir Shalev's "Four Meals"

Batya Gur's "Murder on a Kibbutz"

Ari Shavit's "My Promised Land"

Yaniv Iczkovits's "The Slaughterman's Daughter"

A. B. Yehoshua's "The Lover"

David Grossman's "The Desire to Be Gisella"

Dory Manor's "The Language Beneath the Skin"

Jews and Words

Meir Shalev's "The Blue Mountain"

The Poetry of Avot Yeshurun

Ayelet Tsabari's "Savta"

Meir Shalev's "Four Meals"

Batya Gur's "Murder on a Kibbutz"

Ari Shavit's "My Promised Land"

Yaniv Iczkovits's "The Slaughterman's Daughter"