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The
2005 Award
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The
Liberated Bride by A.B. Yehoshua
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Nominated by:
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| the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| Yochanan
Rivlin, a professor of Near Eastern Studies at Haifa University, is equally
determined to understand the causes of the Algerian civil war of the 1990s
and the mystery of his son's divorce. His is a double search for truth,
each involving a different bride - Samahar, his own research assistant,
an ambitious Arab newlywed from a village in the Galilee, and Galya, who
deserted his son in Jerusalem with no explanation. Against his wife's better
judgement (Hagit is a judge by profession), he explores relationships at
once personal and political - man and wife, father and son, teacher and
pupil, Israeli and Arab. In this comedy of manners, at once deeply serious and highly entertaining, Yehoshua brilliantly portrays characters from disparate sectors of Israeli life, united above all by a very human desire for, and fear of, the truth in politics and life. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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in Jerusalem, A. B. Yehoshua is one of Israel's preeminent writers.
He is the author of numerous novels, including Mr. Mani, Open
Heart, and A Journey to the End of the Millennium. He has been
awarded the Israeli Prize, the Koret Jewish Book Award, and the National
Jewish Book Award. He lives in Haifa, Israel. |
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