The Retrospective

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Winner, 2012 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger “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

Product details

• Authors: A B Yehoshua, A. B. Yehoshua, A.B. Yehoshua, Abraham B. Yehoshua
• Assisted by: Stuart Schoffman (Translation)
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.03.2014
• EAN: 9780544157989
• ISBN: 978-0-544-15798-9
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Historical fiction, Second World War fiction, Religion: general, United States of America, USA, Religious ethics, Anthologies: general, Fiction: general and literary, Religious and spiritual fiction, Relating to religious groups, Relating to Jewish people and groups, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Media Tie-In, FICTION: Religious, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, FICTION: Historical / World War II, FICTION: Jewish, RELIGION: Ethics, RELIGION: Essays