FIVE SEASONS – A. B. YEHOSHUA
FIVE SEASONS
A. B. Yehoshua
trans. by Hillel Halkin
New Paperback Edition, July 2005
£8.99, 332pp, 1 870015
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A. B. Yehoshua was nominated for
In the autumn, Molkho’s wife dies. His years of loving care have ended
and his newfound freedom proves unlike the one he had imagined.
It is an uneasy freedom, filled with the erotic fantasies of a man
who must fall in love, but whose longing for meaningful relationships is
held hostage by the spirit of his wife.
Winter sees him in Berlin in a
comic encounter with a legal adviser from his office in Haifa. Spring
takes him to the Galilee and an impossible infatuation. Jerusalem in the
summer brings another man’s wife and an extraordinary request. And the
following autumn there is Nina whose yearning for her Russian home brings
Molkho back to life.
Five Seasons
is a subtle, unashamedly realistic novel about love and renewal, and the
steadfast determination of a seasoned heart to live and love. It is A. B.
Yehoshua’s third novel and has long been out of print.
Born in Jerusalem in 1936, A. B. Yehoshua is the author of The Lover,
The Continuing Silence of a Poet, Mr Mani, Open Heart, A Journey to the
End of the Millennium and The Liberated Bride. 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 US and the Jewish Quarterly–Wingate Prize in
the UK.
'Molkho’s adventures are quietly hilarious in the way Kafka is
hilarious.'
The New York Times Book Review
'The novel succeeds in charting the ways in which grief and passions
cannot be cheated…'
Financial Times
'A wonderfully engaging, exquisitely controlled, luminous work.’
Washington Post Book World
‘In
this finely observed and oddly moving comic novel…Yehoshua makes us feel
[Molkho’s] humanity – and deftly wins him our sympathy.’
Kirkus
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of
Saul Bellow
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