Retrospective
A. B. Yehoshua$16.99
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Winner, 2012 Prix du Meilleur Livre tranger "The greatest Hebrew novelist." -- Jewish Review of Books An aging Israeli film director has been invited to the pilgrimage city of Santiago de Compostela for a retrospective of his work. When Yair Moses arrives, a painting over his bed triggers a distant memory from one of his early films: a scene that caused a rift with his brilliant but difficult screenwriter. Upon his return to Israel, Moses decides to travel to the south to look for his elusive former partner and propose a new collaboration. But the screenwriter demands a price for it that will have strange and lasting consequences. A searching and original novel by one of the world's most esteemed writers, The Retrospective is a meditation on mortality and intimacy, on the limits of memory and the struggle of artistic creation. " The Retrospective] moved me deeply." -- Vivian Gornick, The Nation " Yehoshua] achieves an autumnal tone as he ruminates on memory's slippery hold on life and on art." -- The New Yorker
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 03/25/2014
ISBN: 9780544157989
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.54w x 0.95d
Review Citations: New Yorker (The) 05/04/2014 pg. 24
Winner, 2012 Prix du Meilleur Livre tranger "The greatest Hebrew novelist." -- Jewish Review of Books An aging Israeli film director has been invited to the pilgrimage city of Santiago de Compostela for a retrospective of his work. When Yair Moses arrives, a painting over his bed triggers a distant memory from one of his early films: a scene that caused a rift with his brilliant but difficult screenwriter. Upon his return to Israel, Moses decides to travel to the south to look for his elusive former partner and propose a new collaboration. But the screenwriter demands a price for it that will have strange and lasting consequences. A searching and original novel by one of the world's most esteemed writers, The Retrospective is a meditation on mortality and intimacy, on the limits of memory and the struggle of artistic creation. " The Retrospective] moved me deeply." -- Vivian Gornick, The Nation " Yehoshua] achieves an autumnal tone as he ruminates on memory's slippery hold on life and on art." -- The New Yorker
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 03/25/2014
ISBN: 9780544157989
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.54w x 0.95d
Review Citations: New Yorker (The) 05/04/2014 pg. 24