The Lover
A. B. Yehoshua · 1936–2022 · Israel
Originally HaMe'ahev (Hebrew)
Why it matters
Multiple first-person voices search for a woman's vanished lover during the chaos of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Private longing shadowed by national crisis, told in a stylized, almost biblical register.
At a glance
psychological novelwar novel
Difficulty 7/10slow pace258 pagesSix shifting first-person narrators in an elevated, oblique register requiring careful piecing-together.
