The Lover

A husband seeks his wife’ s lover who is lost in the turbulence of Israel’ s Yom Kippur War. As the story of his quest unfolds and grows in intensity, the main protagonists are drawn into the search and transformed by it: through the different perspective of husband, wife, teenage daughter, young Arab emerges a complex picture of the uneasy present, the tension between generations, between Israel’ s past and future, between Jews and Arabs. The Lover was A. B. Yehoshua’ s first novel and immediately brought him international recognition. It is brilliant, compassionate and highly original and as accomplished as all his later works.