A.B. Yehoshua / Abraham B. Yehoshua

Author Information
A.B. Yehoshua / Abraham B. Yehoshua's Latest Book

Newest Release

  • Bibliography:
    15 Books
  • First Book:
    February 1984
  • Latest Book:
    April 2023
  • Author Rating:
  • Share:

Book List in Order: 15 titles

  • A Late Divorce

    A novel of a Jewish family coming together, and coming apart, by an award-winning “master storyteller” (The Wall Street Journal). “Anyone who has had experience of the sad and subtle ways in which human beings torment one another under license ...

  • Five Seasons

    This tale of an awkward Israeli widower and his misadventures with women is an “extraordinary novel . . . a masterpiece” (Los Angeles Times). After seven long years of illness, Molkho’s wife passes, leaving him in mourning, ...

  • The Continuing Silence of a Poet

    This collection of ten short stories represents almost 30 years of the author's career, including some of his most popular works. The title story is about an ageing poet who cannot write as the times demand, but his mentally handicapped son can....

  • Mr. Mani

    New York Times Notable Book: A story of six generations of a Jewish family, by an author Saul Bellow called “one of Israel’s world-class writers.”   In this novel, a winner of both the National Jewish Book Award and the first Israeli Liter...

  • The Lover

    A man searches for his wife’s lover during the Yom Kippur War, in a novel by the award-winning author hailed as the “Israeli Faulkner” (The New York Times).   In Haifa, at the dawn of Israel’s 1973 war, the lives of a middle-class garage...

  • Open Heart

    “Seductively heady . . . Ingeniously explores the unfathomable mysteries of the heart.” -- Philadelphia InquirerA young Israeli intern vying for the position of surgeon learns that his internship has been terminated and he has been chosen to a...

  • A Journey to the End of the Millennium

    “A masterpiece” about faith, race, and morality at a medieval turning point, from the National Jewish Book Award winner and “Israeli Faulkner” (The New York Times).   It’s edging toward the end of the year 999 when Ben Attar, a Morocca...

  • The Liberated Bride

    An Israeli professor and an Arab student join forces in a witty novel that “tells a simple story about a region that complicates all it touches” (The New Yorker). Yochanan Rivlin, a professor at Haifa University, is a man of boundless and often n...

  • A Woman in Jerusalem

    A woman in her forties is a victim of a suicide bombing at a Jerusalem market. Her body lies nameless in a hospital morgue. She had apparently worked as a cleaning woman at a bakery, but there is no record of her employment. When a Jerusalem daily ac...



  • Friendly Fire

    A couple, long married, are spending an unaccustomed week apart. Amotz, an engineer, is busy juggling the day-to-day needs of his elderly father, his children, and his grandchildren. His wife, Daniella, flies from Tel Aviv to East Africa to mourn the...

  • The Retrospective

    An aging Israeli film director has been invited to the pilgrimage city of Santiago de Compostela for a retrospective of his work. When Yair Moses and Ruth, his leading actress and longtime muse, settle into their hotel room, a painting over their bed...

  • The Extra

    From Israel’s highly acclaimed author, a novel about a musician who returns home and finds the rhythm of her life interrupted and forever changed

 Noga, forty-two and a divorcee, is a harpist with an orchestra in the Netherlands. Upon the s...

  • The Story of Crime and Punishment

    You should go to a street corner and get down on your knees and tell the whole world: "I have sinned."

    Raskolnikov is a poor student living in St Petersburg. Desperate to escape his poverty, he murders his pawnbroker and her sister, and flees ...

  • The Tunnel

    A “spryly amusing [and] deeply affecting” novel of a Tel Aviv family coping with the sudden mental decline of their beloved husband and father (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).A National Jewish Book Award FinalistUntil recently, Zvi Luria was a h...

  • The Only Daughter

    “An old-fashioned book, free of cynicism, encroaching technology and intricate plotting, but imbued with a heartfelt and optimistic view of humanity -- in other words, a book filled with feeling and moral values.” -- New York Times Book ReviewFro...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

A.B. Yehoshua / Abraham B. Yehoshua has published 15 books.

A.B. Yehoshua / Abraham B. Yehoshua does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Only Daughter, was published in April 2023.

The first book by A.B. Yehoshua / Abraham B. Yehoshua, A Late Divorce, was published in February 1984.

No. A.B. Yehoshua / Abraham B. Yehoshua does not write books in series.
No ads, please...

$20 / year

FictionDB Premium Membership

Subscribe