Late Divorce

A novel of a Jewish family coming together, and coming apart, by an award-winning "e;master storyteller"e; (The Wall Street Journal). "e;Anyone who has had experience of the sad and subtle ways in which human beings torment one another under license of family ties will appreciate the merits of A.B. Yehoshua's A Late Divorce."e; London Review of Books A powerful story about a family and a country in crisis. The father of three grown children comes back to Israel to get a divorce from his wife of many years; another woman, newly pregnant, awaits him in America. Narrated in turn by each family member husband and wife, sons and daughter, young grandson the drama builds to a crescendo at the traditional family gathering on Passover eve. "e;Each character here is brilliantly realized. . . . Thank goodness for a novel that is ambitious and humane and that is about things that really matter"e; New Statesman "e;A master storyteller whose tales reveal the inner life of a vital, conflicted nation."e; The Wall Street Journal