{"product_id":"friendly-fire-a-duet-paperback","title":"Friendly Fire: A Duet - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eA. B. Yehoshua\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA couple, long married, are spending an unaccustomed week apart. Ya'ari, an engineer, is busy juggling the day-to-day needs of his elderly father, his children, and his grandchildren. His wife, Daniela, flies from Tel Aviv to East Africa to mourn the death of her older sister. There she confronts her anguished brother-in-law, Yirmiyahu, whose soldier son was killed six years earlier in the West Bank by \"friendly fire.\" Yirmiyahu is now managing a team of African researchers digging for the bones of man's primate ancestors as he desperately strives to detach himself from every shred of his identity, Jewish and Israeli. \u003cbr\u003eWith great artistry, A. B. Yehoshua has once again written a rich, compassionate, rewarding novel in which sharply rendered details of modern Israeli life and age-old mysteries of human existence echo one another in complex and surprising ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA haunting book about mankind's unity in diversity that will resonate for a long time in the minds of its readers. -- Washington Post Book World \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Yehoshua achieves a remarkable artistry\" New York Times Book Review \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA couple, long married, are spending an unaccustomed week apart. Ya'ari, an engineer, is busy juggling the day-to-day needs of his elderly father, his children, and his grandchildren. His wife, Daniela, flies from Tel Aviv to East Africa to mourn the death of her older sister. There she confronts her anguished brother-in-law, Yirmiyahu, whose soldier son was killed six years earlier in the West Bank by \"friendly fire.\" Yirmiyahu is now managing a team of African researchers digging for the bones of man s primate ancestors as he desperately strives to detach himself from every shred of his identity, Jewish and Israeli. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith great artistry, A. B. Yehoshua has once again written a rich, compassionate, rewarding novel in which sharply rendered details of modern Israeli life and age-old mysteries of human existence echo one another in complex and surprising ways. A. B. Yehoshua is one of Israel's preeminent writers. His novels include \u003ci\u003eJourney to the End of the Millennium\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Liberated Bride\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Woman in Jerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 396\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 7.98 x 5.32 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 11, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42724094869567,"sku":"9780547247854","price":26.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/1a85eb78fc3059dfb2c9aa9a4703de57.webp?v=1765101467","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/friendly-fire-a-duet-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}