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Friendly Fire

Friendly Fire

by A . B . Yehoshua (Author)

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    Hardcover 2008

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Synopsis

A long-married couple are spending an unaccustomed week apart. The wife has flown to East Africa to grieve the death of her sister with her brother-in-law, who had suffered worse heartbreak years earlier. The husband, a familiar Yehoshua character, stays behind in Israel for his busy lift engineering consultancy, and his large demanding family. The chapters alternate between husband and wife, creating a complex web of family relations, memories and discoveries, with death looming large over all. Friendly Fire explores themes touched upon in A.B. Yehoshua's earlier novels, with the author's customary stylistic brilliance, imagination and humour.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 464
 Publisher: HALBAN
Published: 06 Nov 2008
ISBN 10: 1905559089
ISBN 13: 9781905559084
Book Overview: A profound and humorous novel about casual evil in all its various guises Author A.B. Yehoshua.
 Prizes: Shortlisted for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2009.

Media Reviews
PRAISE FOR A WOMAN IN JERUSALEM [An] astonishing new novel . . . Like sacred music, the deepest chords resound. --John Leonard, Harper's Magazine [A] masterpiece, a compact, strange work of Chekhovian grace, grief, wit and compassion. --Warren Bass, The Washington Post Book World
Author Bio
A.B. Yehoshua is one of Israel's pre-eminent novelists. He has been awarded the prestigious Israel Prize for his lifetime's creative contribution to Israel, the National Jewish Book Award in the US, the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize in the UK where he was also shortlisted in 2005 for the first Man Booker International Prize.