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    <body><![CDATA[The official back-of-the-book description for A.B. Yehoshua's &quot;The Lover&quot; describes it as 'dreamlike', about as generic an adjective as you can give a novel. Don't all stories have something to do with dreams, even just metaphysically? Isn't that (ideally) what happens when we read -- a tr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59764326">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Dreamlike&quot; is a perfect description for this beautiful tale. About once every few years I'd read a novel that makes me laugh and cry out loud. This is one of them, and the first time a book assigned for class has done so to me. The first 100 pages took me a month to plough through, but I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70244819">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[what a mess and disappointment.<br/><br/>an intriguing premise completely botched. the premise: alienated husband no longer in love with wife introduces her to a man he hopes will become her lover and 'free' him of her.<br/><br/>but that plot line is dropped when the lover leaves and the husband...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34726084">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Very good book about the different faces of Israel set around the time of the Yom Kippur War (1972). A wealthy garage owner searches for his wife's lover while his daughter falls in love with his Arab mechanic who is also caring for the grandmother of the lover. The book is structured around alterna...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38780750">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;And in the last war we lost a lover.&quot;<br/><br/>Engrossing yet elusive tale of a husband's search for his wife's lover, who disappears during the 1973 Arab-Israeli War. Scenes are told and re-told from the perspective of each character involved. Yet, despite hearing all sides of the stor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14210370">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Hard to get into for the first chapter or so, but worth it. It reminded me of how reading fiction about a place (in this case, Israel) can give you a much stronger sense of it than reading, say, news stories. I don't travel much [read: at all], so I don't have any way of checking my impressions agai...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37677366">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[A husband seeks his wife's lover who is lost in the turbulence of Israel's Yom Kippur War. As the story of his quest unfolds and grows in intensity, the main protagonists are drawn into the search and are transformed by it: through the different perspectives of husband, wife, teenage daughter, and young Arab emerges a complex picture of the uneasy present, the tension between generations, between Israel's past and future, between Jews and Arabs.   'We see an Arab and an Israeli locked into a debate of proximity, alikeness, mental hatred, that Yehoshua's superb ability to render both presences relieves of all sentimentality. What I value most in The Lover is a gift for equidistance - between characters, even between the feelings on both sides.' Alfred Kazin, New York Review of Books]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[i felt like everyone includeing myself was looking at each other throught foging windows. no one really feeling very much of anything because they are secluded from the world and everyone in it by the glass boxes. i felt very detached. it was an interesting book to read but personally once was enoug...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27797716">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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