Five Seasons
by A. B. Yehoshua
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In the autumn, Molkho's wife dies and his years of loving attention are ended. But his newfound freedom is filled with the erotic fantasies of a man who must fall in love. Winter sees him away to the operas of Berlin and a comic tryst with a legal advisor who has a sprained ankle. Spring takes him to Galilee and an underage Indian girl. Jerusalem in the summer presents him with an offer from an old classmate to seduce his infertile wife. And the next autumn it is Nina (if only they spoke the show more same language!), whose yearning for her Russian home leads Molkho back to life. Five Seasons is a finely nuanced, unabashedly realistic novel that provides immense reading pleasure. show lessTags
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I was very involved with this story because of Yehoshua's writing. I was not able to figure out all the metaphors, but found the content very interesting.
Translated from Hebrew/ post death grieving and rebirth
שנה בחייו של מולכו, אחרי מות אשתו הייקית מסרטן לאחר מחלה ממושכת. מולכו (שלפי השמועות בנוי על דמותו של ש. מרפאל) דמות בינונית, אפורה, קטנונית ובעל נשמה של פקיד. מוקסם מתרופות ומחלות. רוצה להתאהב, אך איננו יכול כי הוא עדיין קשור לאשתו המתה (או אולי למחלת אשות). תיאור נטורליסטי מדהים באיכותו ובדיוקו. עם זאת, הספר מייגע כמעה. מי רוצה לבלות שעות במיטה בחברת מולכו.
Dec 3, 2011Hebrew
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Abraham B. Yehoshua, known commonly as A.B. Yehoshua, was born in Jerusalem on December 19, 1936. He studied Hebrew literature and philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has taught at high-school and university levels and is currently a professor of literature at Haifa University. He is a novelist, essayist, and playwright. His first show more book of stories, The Death of the Old Man, was published in 1962. His novels include Mr. Mani, Open Heart, Five Seasons, and Friendly Fire. He won the Israeli Prize in 1994. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Пять времен года
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
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- 892.436 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages Afro-Asiatic literatures Jewish, Israeli, and Hebrew Hebrew fiction 1947–2000
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- PJ5054 .Y42 .M5513 — Language and Literature Oriental languages and literatures Oriental philology and literature Hebrew Literature Individual authors and works
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