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 of family ties will appreciate the merits of A.B. Yehoshua's A Late Divorce.' London Review of Books A powerful story about a familyand a country in crisis. The father of three grown children comes back to Israel to get a divorce from his wife of many years; another woman, newly pregnant, awaits him in America. Narrated in turn by each family memberhusband and wife, sons and daughter, young grandsonthe drama builds to a crescendo at the traditional family gathering on Passover eve. ';Each character here is brilliantly realized…. Thank goodness for a novel that is ambitious and humane and that is about things that really matter' New Statesman ';A master storyteller whose tales reveal the inner life of a vital, conflicted nation.' The Wall Street Journal
