Retrospective

RetrospectiveA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Winner, 2012 Prix du Meilleur Livre tranger "The greatest Hebrew novelist." Jewish Review of Books An aging Israeli film director has been invited to the pilgrimage city of Santiago de Compostela for a retrospective of his work. When Yair Moses arrives, a painting over his bed triggers a distant memory from one of his early films: a scene that caused a rift with his brilliant but difficult screenwriter.

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Winner, 2012 Prix du Meilleur Livre tranger

"The greatest Hebrew novelist." -- Jewish Review of Books

An aging Israeli film director has been invited to the pilgrimage city of Santiago de Compostela for a retrospective of his work. When Yair Moses arrives, a painting over his bed triggers a distant memory from one of his early films: a scene that caused a rift with his brilliant but difficult screenwriter. Upon his return to Israel, Moses decides to travel to the south to look for his elusive former partner and propose a new collaboration. But the screenwriter demands a price for it that will have strange and lasting consequences.

A searching and original novel by one of the world's most esteemed writers, The Retrospective is a meditation on mortality and intimacy, on the limits of memory and the struggle of artistic creation.

" The Retrospective] moved me deeply." -- Vivian Gornick, The Nation

" Yehoshua] achieves an autumnal tone as he ruminates on memory's slippery hold on life and on art." -- The New Yorker

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 03/25/2014
ISBN: 9780544157989
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.54w x 0.95d

Review Citations: New Yorker (The) 05/04/2014 pg. 24