The Liberated Bride
By (Author) A.B. Yehoshua
Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
1st April 2004
United Kingdom
Tertiary Education
Fiction
892.436
Commended for Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize 2004
Paperback
576
Width 215mm, Height 139mm, Spine 43mm
618g
Professor Yohanan Rivlin has two obsessions, the first and most ambitious, is to understand the Arab mind - no mean feat in itself though perhaps made easier by the fact that he lives and works with Israeli Arabs. The second - and more personal, though equally hard to grasp - is to understand the failure of his elder son's marriage. Rivlin's two quests lead him to extraordinary - and at times highly entertaining - encounters with very disparate people, where the personal becomes intertwined with the political, as he searches out the truth both in politics and life.
Born in Jerusalem in 1936, A.B. Yehoshua is one of Israel's pre-eminent writers. He teaches Comparative Literature at the University of Haifa.