A. B. Yehoshua

The Only Daughter (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Schoffman, Stuart

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Rachele Luzzatto is the only daughter of a Jewish family in northern Italy. Curious and intelligent, she is caught between her interest in religions - her own and others - and her father's violent rejection of them all.

A disagreement ensues between them about the part she is given in the school nativity play. At the same time, she discovers that her father is ill; the severity of his illness is only revealed to her very gradually while her teacher, various members of her family and even her rabbi offer her wide-ranging and humane support.

A.B. Yehoshua paints a complex, and humorous, picture of conflicting religious identities and historical memory in this tender character study of a young girl at the threshold of adulthood.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Halban
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781912600144
• Artikelnr.: 64245344

Autorenporträt

Born in Jerusalem in 1936, A.B. Yehoshua was the author of twelve novels, a collection of short stories, and several plays and volumes of essays. He has won prizes worldwide and his work has been translated into twenty-eight languages and adapted for film and opera. An outspoken critic of both Israeli and Palestinian policies, he continued to speak about and search for solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Yehoshua died in June 2022, aged 85.

Rezensionen

"An old-fashioned book, free of cynicism, encroaching technology and intricate plotting, but imbued with a heartfelt and optimistic view of humanity - in other words, a book filled with feeling and moral values." - New York Times Book Review

"A wise, masterfully understated work by one of Israel's towering literary figures." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"One of Israel's world-class writers." - Saul Bellow

"[Yehoshua is] an Israeli Faulkner." - Harold Bloom, The New York Times

"The Only Daughter is an act of gentle love, full of generosity." - Tuttolibri

"We all need them -brothers and sisters and writers who speak to us as if they were our older brothers (and sisters)- A.B. Yehoshua is one." - La Repubblica

"Yehoshua knows how to probe the human soul through characters who peek out from the pages at us all, as if to say, 'Hey, watch out it's about you, too.'" - Doppiozero