The Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua

Yael Halevi-Wise is Associate Professor and Chair of Jewish Studies at McGill University. She is the author of Interactive Fictions: Scenes of Storytelling in the Novel and the editor of Sephardism: Spanish Jewish History and the Modern Literary Imagination.

"For anyone looking to better understand the artistry of Yehoshua's fiction or to better decipher his novels' messages, this book is indispensable." -Philip Hollander Sephardic Horizons "Halevi-Wise's pithy pronouncements are bound to educate and delight researcher and lay literature lover alike." -Laura Wiseman Hebrew Higher Education "This integrative volume presents a fine-grained analysis of Yehoshua's stance as a writer who targets historical and cultural dilemmas in Jewish and Israeli existence." -Adia Mendelson-Maoz AJS Review "[An] engaging thematic study of Yehoshua's work." -Liam Hoare The Tel Aviv Review of Books "Yael Halevi-Wise's book on A. B. Yehoshua is a useful, intelligent introduction to the fiction of arguably the most talented Israeli novelist." -Dan Miron,author of From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking "The work of A. B. Yehoshua-one of Israel's most important writers since the 1960s-has long merited a full, book-length study in English. Yael Halevi-Wise's book has the virtue of broad scope, including commentary on a range of works from Yehoshua's earliest writing up to his latest novel, from 2018. It offers an overview of his multilayered narrative techniques as well as chapters on a variety of themes and signature moves in his oeuvre." -Naomi Sokoloff,coeditor of What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (And What It Means to Americans)