Five Seasons A.B. Yehoshua. In the autumn, Molkho’s wife dies. His years of loving care have ended and his newfound freedom proves unlike the one he had imagined. It is an uneasy freedom, filled with the erotic fantasies of a man who must fall in love, but whose longing for meaningful relationships is held hostage by the spirit of his wife. A.B. Yehoshua has accomplished something quite extraordinary in Five Seasons in the character of Molkho. Buffeted by life, Molkho tries to pick himself up and begin again. That existence confounds does not deter him, for he keeps going. Yehoshua has made Molkho a hero without making him heroic/5(13). · Five Seasons. by. A.B. Yehoshua, Hillel Halkin (Translation) · Rating details · ratings · 23 reviews. 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/5(23).
Five Seasons By A. B. Yehoshua Translated by Hillel Halkin. pages. Doubleday. $ The Israeli writer A. B. Yehoshua has been hailed as a master of allegory and fabulism, as a modernist. A. B. Yehoshua. A. B. Yehoshua is the author of numerous novels, including Mr. Mani, Five Seasons, The Liberated Bride, and A Woman in Jerusalem. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages, and he has received many awards worldwide, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Jewish Book Award. Donate. Avraham B. Yehoshua, known commonly as A.B. Yehoshua, is an Israeli novelist and playwright. Yehoshua (born Decem) was born in Jerusalem. He studied Hebrew literature and philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has taught at high-school and university levels, and taught in Paris while living there from to
An absurd, tragic, humorous, and hopeful meditation on love, marriage, and the quiet struggles of average Israeli lives, Five Seasons “reconfirms [A. B. Yehoshua’s] status as a shrewd analyst of domestic ordeals” (Publishers Weekly). A. B. YEHOSHUA is the author of numerous novels, including Mr. Mani, Five Seasons, The Liberated Bride, and A Woman in Jerusalem. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages, and he has received many awards worldwide, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Jewish Book Award. He lives in Tel Aviv, Israel. Five Seasons (), a comic novel by the Israeli author A.B. Yehoshua, translated into English by Hillel Halkin, follows mid-level Israeli bureaucrat Molkho as he attempts to resume a romantic and erotic life in the wake of his wife’s death. Although Five Seasons is considered one of the minor works by the author of A Late Divorce (), reviewers nevertheless regard this “finely observed and oddly moving comic novel” (Kirkus Reviews) as a worthy addition to Yehoshua’s oeuvre.
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