The Liberated Bride

a.b. yehoshua hillel halkin

Yochanan Rivlin, a professor of Near Eastern Studies at Haifa University, is equally determined to understand the causes of the Algerian civil war of the 1990s and the mystery of his son's divorce. His is a double search for truth, each involving a different bride - Samaher, his own research assistant, an ambitious Arab newlywed from a village in the Galilee, and Galya, who deserted his son in Jerusalem with no explanation. Against his wife's better judgment (Hagit is a judge by profession), he explores relationships at once personal and political - man and wife, father and son, teacher and pupil, Israeli and Arab.

Genres fictionisraelnovelsjewishliteratureromancecontemporary

568 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1983

Literary awards

sapir prize, pen translation prize, jewish quarterly-wingate prize, premio letterario internazionale giuseppe tomasi di lampedusa, premio san clemente,

This edition

Format: 568 pages, Paperback
Published: October 4, 2004 by HarperVia
ISBN: 9780156030168
ASIN: 0156030160
Language: English

About the author

a.b. yehoshua

Abraham B. Yehoshua (אברהם ב. יהושע) is one of Israel's preeminent writers. His novels include A Journey to the End of the Millenium, The Liberated Bride, and A Woman in Jerusalem, which was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 2007. He lives in Haifa.