Full name: Friendly Fire: A Novel

Author: A. B. Yehoshua Year: 2007 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780151014194 0151014191

A couple, long married, are spending an unaccustomed week apart. Amotz, an engineer, is busy juggling the day-to-day needs of his elderly father, his children, and his grandchildren. His wife, Daniella, flies from Tel Aviv to East Africa to mourn the death of her older sister. There she confronts her anguished seventy-year-old 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. Similar books: A Woman in Jerusalem by A. B. Yehoshua The Lover by A. B. Yehoshua A Late Divorce by A. B. Yehoshua Refiner's Fire by Mark Helprin Wherever You Go by Joan Leegant The Book of Intimate Grammar by David Grossman Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen Mr. Mani by A. B. Yehoshua Be My Knife by David Grossman The Hope by Herman Wouk Elsewhere, Perhaps by Amos Oz A Perfect Peace by Amos Oz The Conversion by Aharon Appelfeld Seven Blessings by Ruchama King The Liberated Bride by A. B. Yehoshua Take Me With You by Catherine Ryan Hyde Empire Falls by Richard Russo Anne of Windy Poplars by Lucy Maud Montgomery The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson