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9 סיפורים מאת אברהם ב. יהושע

ספר קולי — ״מול היערות״ מאת א. ב. יהושע

"הסיפור הראשון שכתבתי, שראה אור ב־1957, נקרא "מות הזקן" ובו מתואר זקן שמתעקש לחיות והחליטו דיירי הבית לקבור אותו. המוות הוא חלק מהחיים וצריך לשאת אותו בתוכך ולא לפחד ממנו." (אברהם ב. יהושע)

בכפר ההרים הנידח והשכוח יתיר עוברת אחת ליום רכבת אקספרס מפוארת, ואינה עוצרת. המלחמות פסחו על הכפר, והשגרה האפורה של תושביו הדעוכים משועבדת כל-כולה לרגע היומי שבו חולפת הרכבת. התושבים הכמהים להתרגשות חיה ואמיתית מתכננים להוריד את הרכבת מן הפסים בהפקר של פריקת אחריות, כדי לזכות בחוויה של דאגה וחמלה אנושיות מול האסון. כשנדפס הסיפור לראשונה התפעמו הקוראים והמבקרים מכוחם המפתיע ומן החידוש שבו, שבישר דור חדש בפרוזה העברית. היום, במבט לאחור, הוא עדיין מרגש בעוצמתו העלילתית ובאיכויותיו הסגנוניות, ואף מתגלים בו בדיעבד מבני העומק המזינים את כתיבתו המאוחרת יותר של יהושע, ומחזקים את הרושם העז שהם מותירים.

אברהם ב. יהושע מספר סיפור אנושי ומלא חום על עכבר קטן שהתמקם בביתן של תמר וגאיה, נתפס בכלוב רק בגללן, אבל בזכותן הופך גם לחלק מהמשפחה.

Nella settimana che precede la Pasqua, torna in Israele Kaminka, padre di tre figli ormai sposati, e marito di una donna chiusa da anni in manicomio. Abita negli Stati Uniti, ha una nuova compagna e aspetta un figlio. Sono dunque le pratiche del divorzio che Kaminka deve avviare, ma il rientro in patria e in famiglia non avviene senza traumi. Davanti a un avvenimento così grave, vengono a galla i nodi irrisolti, le vecchie ferite, scatenando una crisi progressiva che esplode proprio il giorno di Pasqua.

Sullo sfondo di una Haifa scossa dalla guerra del 1973, si dipana lo scenario de L'amante, il più sinceramente israeliano dei romanzi di Yehoshua. L'autore si affida alle voci dei suoi personaggi, ai loro sogni, ai ricordi, ai desideri, alle aspettative: sono le parole di Adam, agiato proprietario di una grande officina meccanica; le riflessioni della figlia Dafi, quindicenne insonne e ribelle; i sogni della moglie Asya, intellettuale precocemente ingrigita; gli stupori di Na'im, giovane operaio arabo; i vaneggiamenti della novantenne Vaduccia.

Zvi Luria ha poco piú di settant'anni quando un neurologo gli diagnostica un principio di demenza senile. All'inizio la malattia lo porterà soltanto a commettere piccole distrazioni, sbagliare un nome, confondere un altro bambino per suo nipote, oppure visitare il letto di uno sconosciuto in ospedale convinto di essere al capezzale di un vecchio amico in coma. Poi però tutto diventerà più duro e passo dopo passo la sua lucidità finirà con l'essere completamente compromessa.

Mr. Mani is a deeply affecting six-generation family saga, extending from 19th-century Greece and Poland to British-occupied Palestine to German-occupied Crete and ultimately to modern Israel. The narrative moves through time and is told in five conversations about the Mani family. It ends in Athens in 1848 with Avraham Mani's powerful tale about the death of his young son in Jerusalem. A profoundly human novel, rich in drama, irony, and wit.

A husband’s search for his wife’s lover, lost amid the turbulence of the Yom Kippur War, is the heart of this dreamlike novel. Through five different perspectives, Yehoshua explores the realities and consequences of the affair and the search, laying bare deep-rooted tensions within family, between generations, between Jews and Arabs.

A woman in her forties is a victim of a suicide bombing at a Jerusalem market. Her body lies nameless in a hospital morgue. She had apparently worked as a cleaning woman at a bakery, but there is no record of her employment. When a Jerusalem daily accuses the bakery of "gross negligence and inhumanity toward an employee," the bakery's owner, overwhelmed by guilt, entrusts the task of identifying and burying the victim to a human resources man. He's at first reluctant to take on the job, but as the facts of the woman's life take shape—she was an engineer from the former Soviet Union.

In an attempt to forestall conflict and advance his business interests at the same time, Ben Attar undertakes his annual journey to Europe with both his first wife and his new wife. The trip is the beginning of a profound human drama whose moral conflicts of fidelity and desire resonate with those of our time. Yehoshua renders the medieval world of Jewish and Christian culture and trade with astonishing depth and sensuous detail.

Until recently, Zvi Luria was a healthy man in his 70s, an engineer living in Tel Aviv with his wife, Dina, visiting with their two children whenever possible. Now he is showing signs of early dementia, and his work on the tunnels of the Trans-Israel Highway is no longer possible. To keep his mind sharp, Zvi decides to take a job as the unpaid assistant to Asael Maimoni, a young engineer involved in a secret military project: a road to be built inside the massive Ramon Crater in the northern Negev Desert. The challenge of the road, however, is compounded by strange circumstances.

Siamo in una città del Nord Italia, durante le feste di fine anno a cavallo del millennio. Rachele Luzzatto è la figlia unica di una facoltosa famiglia ebraica. Curiosa e irrequieta, spiazzante osservatrice capace con i suoi commenti di ribaltare i luoghi comuni degli adulti, Rachele è però piuttosto confusa riguardo alla propria identità. Da un lato, per prepararsi alla cerimonia del suo Bat Mitzvah, deve impegnarsi nello studio della lingua ebraica, delle preghiere e dei precetti.

Rachele Luzzato is twelve years old when she learns that her father is gravely ill. While her family plans for her upcoming bat mitzvah, Rachele finds herself cast as the Madonna in her school’s Christmas play. Caught between spiritual poles, struggling to cope with her father’s mortality, Rachele feels as if the threads of her everyday life are unraveling.