The Liberated Bride - Hardcover

A. B. Yehoshua

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151006539 ISBN 13: 9780151006533

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003

Synopsis

As Yohanan Rivlin, a professor at Haifa University, embarks on research into turbulent recent Algerian history, with the help of one of his students, a young Arab bride from a Galilee village, he becomes obsessed with his son's failed marriage. 25,000 first printing.

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Review:

a magnificent, often comic, and humanely inexorable journey -- New York Times

sprawling, ambitious, maddeningly brilliant -- The Sun (New York)

From the Author:

"When I began ['The Liberated Bride', in 1998], the peace treaty was in trouble but the breakthrough in Oslo was done, so my interest was in writing about our relationship with Israeli Arabs. ... This is a book about borders - how far can a father-in-law go behind his son's back to help him? What does a man say to his wife and what should he not say? What will be the frontier between us and the Palestinian state? For all our history as Jews we were crossing borders, it was Zionism that brought us back to the idea of having borders. After the six day war, the abolition of the border poisoned the two peoples. ... When the intifada started I didn't change the plan of the book because I didn't know that it would last so long and that it would have such a profound effect. The Arab Israelis were the main protagonists, not the Palestinians. It's very hard to describe an enemy from the inside but understanding the Arabs is the key to understanding ourselves, our crisis!
in the world and without solving it we will deteriorate."
(from an interview with Linda Grant, printed in The Guardian (Review), 31 January 2004)

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0151006539
• ISBN 13: 9780151006533
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 544