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)