Friendly Fire: A Duet (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780547247854)

A 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.
With 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.

Author: A. B. Yehoshua
ISBN-10: 0547247850
ISBN-13: 9780547247854
Publisher: Harpervia
Language: English
Published: 11/11/2009
Pages: 396
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.32w x 0.94d