ANew York Times Book ReviewEditors’ Choice
Winner, 2012 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
“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 Retrospectiveis 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
From the acclaimed author ofA Woman in Jerusalem, a novel about a director, a screenwriter and an actress, old friends and colleagues who meet up for the first time in decades in Santiago de Compostela, and are forced to face the demons that undid them years before, and the ones haunting them now.
Winner, 2012 Prix Médicis étranger
Winner, 2012 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
ANew York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
[Yehoshua] achieves an autumnal tone as he ruminates on memory’s slippery hold on life and on art. —The New Yorker
Yehoshua’s prose penetrated to a level of psychological understanding that moved me deeply. . . [lƒÁ
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