About this title: A story of the Jewish people in Israel, and of Israel's occupation of Palestinian teritory. This book tells the story of Uri, an idealistic soldier serving in an Arab town on the occupied West Bank, and his wife Shosh who enters into an affair with Uri's commander.
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780330322966ISBN:0330322966
Description: Good. Paperback. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Moderate cover creases plus minor rubbing. Minor marks to spine. Contents clean and sound. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780224026390ISBN:0224026399
Description: Very Good in VERY GOOD jacket. First Edition. Ex-library copy in overall good and useful condition. No major defects-unabridged, clean, complete, not falling apart; some light wear. A perfectly good reading or reference copy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780224026390ISBN:0224026399
Description: Hardcover, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in good all round condition. Ships within 24 hours. 325pp., 650grams, ISBN: 0224026399. read more
Description: Very good. Same or next day dispatch whenever possible from Oxford, England. Ex-library, withdrawn, usual markings. Hardcover in very good condition. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, London
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780224026390ISBN:0224026399
Description: Very Good/Very Good. 0224026399 A story of the Jewish people in Israel, and of Israel's occupation of Palestinian teritory. This book tells the story of Uri, an idealistic soldier serving in an Arab town on the occupied West Bank, and his wife Shosh who enters into an affair with Uri's commander. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Date Published: 1992-05-01
ISBN-13:9780671750251ISBN:0671750259
Description: Very Good. First printing. faint pencil erasure otherwise unmarked pages, faint spine crease only noticeable by touch not sight, no cover creases, light edge wear. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780374266394ISBN:0374266395
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Ex-Library D/J has mylar wrapping w/ light wear, lib. marking, taped to cover and may have light smudging. B/C has light wear. Inside has usual ex-lib. markings otherwise has clean tight pages. read more
Edition: 1st
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux, N. Y.
Date Published: 1990
Description: Cover Art. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Hard Back. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. X-Library with normal flaws....The hard cover and the jacket has very light shelf wear............We are very careful when we list our books, but sometimes something minor may get by..... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780374266394ISBN:0374266395
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Signed by previous owner. ex library book cell wrap d. j., library markings. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 325 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
At first it resembles with A.B. Yehoshua's "The Lover" (which I absolutely LOVED), in sampling different characters' perspectives and telling the story in a stream-of-consciousness style, unreliable narrators, marital breakdown by cheating but idealistic wives, and threads of psychological disturbances and emotional complexity. Albeit it sheds interesting points about modern Israeli society such as tensions between Ashkenazim and Sephardim. But this story is abstract in the non-sensical way that it gets in the way of relating to the reader. It's a little "selfish", more like a writer/characters' way of mental masturbation by spewing out their notions than truly engaging the reader. I feel ignored."
"I found it hard to follow, I could not always distinguish the different voices of the characters. Most of book is internal thoughts, abstractions, reflections and I found it excessively cerebral (all the characters sounded kindof the same to me)."
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