Facing the Fires: Conversations With A.B. Yehoshua

In Facing the Fires, Bernard Horn introduces A. B. Yehoshua, Israel\u27s greatest living novelist, to an English-speaking audience. Yehoshua\u27s achievement has been recognized throughout the world, and he has been awarded literary prizes in both Israel and the United States. A lively, controversial, and prophetic voice in his homeland, Yehoshua rigorously tests his community\u27s deepest pieties: religion, Zionism, the agony of the Holocaust. A Jew who does not believe in God, he is a committed Zionist and member of the \u22peace camp\u22 in Israel that welcomed the Palestinian uprising of 1987. In the tradition of the Paris Review interviews, Horn\u27s conversations with Yehoshua reveal the intricate play of literary, psychological, mythological, and political motifs in the novelist\u27s work. Stimulated by a warm friendship between the two scholars, the intellectual energy of Facing the Fires offers readers a pleasure they might expect only from fiction.http://digitalcommons.framingham.edu/books/1005/thumbnail.jp