Five Seasons

A. B. Yehoshua

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In the autumn, Molkho's wife dies and his years of loving attention are ended. But his newfound freedom is filled with the erotic fantasies of a man who must fall in love. Winter sees him away to the operas of Berlin and a comic tryst with a legal advisor who has a sprained ankle. Spring takes him to Galilee and an underage Indian girl. Jerusalem in the summer presents him with an offer from an old classmate to seduce his infertile wife. And the next autumn it is Nina (if only they spoke the same language!), whose yearning for her Russian home leads Molkho back to life.

Five Seasons is a finely nuanced, unabashedly realistic novel that provides immense reading pleasure.

Book Details

Publisher: Harpervia
Publish Date: Oct 4th, 2004
Pages: 355
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.50in - 1.00in - 1.05lb
EAN: 9780156010894
Categories: • Literary• Historical - 20th Century - World War II & Holocaust• Jewish

About the Author

Yehoshua, A. B.: -

A. B. Yehoshua (1936-2022) was born in Jerusalem to a Sephardi family. Drawing comparisons to William Faulkner and described by Saul Bellow as "one of Israel's world-class writers," Yehoshua, an ardent humanist and titan of storytelling, distinguished himself from contemporaries with his diverse exploration of Israeli identity. His work, which has been translated into twenty-eight languages, includes two National Jewish Book Award winners (Five Seasons and Mr. Mani) and has received countless honors worldwide, including the International Booker Prize shortlist and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Woman in Jerusalem).

Halkin, Hillel: -

An author, journalist, and internationally reknowned, awarding-winning translator, Hillel Halkin has translated several novels from Hebrew into English.

Praise for this book

PRAISE FOR FIVE SEASONS
"A wonderfully engaging, exquisitely controlled, luminous work." -The Washington Post Book World

"[An] extraordinary novel . . . A masterpiece."-Los Angeles Times

"Fiction that matters. Yehoshua continues to give us evidence in abundance that his reign as one of Israel's most distinguished writers is likely to be a long one indeed."-The Philadelphia Inquirer
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