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Friendly Fire

A.B. Yehoshua

A husband and wife spend a week apart over the Hanukkah holiday: Daniela visits her widowed brother-in-law in Africa to revive memories of her sister with him but, in ways she cannot begin to understand, he has been left wounded and raging after an earlier tragedy - a death by friendly fire.
Her husband, Amotz Ya'ari, stays behind in Israel, rushing between his engineering company, their grandchildren and his father. Life in the Ya'ari family is full, complicated and humorous, but beyond it lies a fragile society deeply uneasy with itself and badly scarred, with each family harbouring its own ghosts.
Ever-creative, A.B. Yehoshua's short, interwoven chapters create a duet-like narrative which penetrates deeply into human relationships and taps into the psyche of his country.

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : SEP 2, 2010
  • Imprint : Halban Publishers
  • Page Extent : 464
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781905559190
  • Price : INR 699
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A.B. Yehoshua

A. B. YEHOSHUA born in Jerusalem in 1936 is the author of numerous novels as well as a collection of short stories. He is one of Israel's pre-eminent novelists and has been awarded the prestigious Israel Prize for his lifetime's creative contribution to Israel the National Jewish Book Award in the U.S. and the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize in the U.K. He has been shortlisted for the first Man Booker International Prize 2005.

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