Price  £8.99
Format  Paperback
Published  July 2005
Length  332 pages
ISBN  9781870015943
ISBN  9781905559466 (ebook)

Five Seasons
A.B. Yehoshua     

In the autumn, Molkho’s wife dies. His years of loving care have ended and his newfound freedom proves unlike the one he had imagined.  It is an uneasy freedom, filled with the erotic fantasies of a man who must fall in love, but whose longing for meaningful relationships is held hostage by the spirit of his wife.

Winter sees him in Berlin in a comic encounter with a legal adviser from his office in Haifa. Spring takes him to the Galilee and an impossible infatuation. Jerusalem in the summer brings another man’s wife and an extraordinary request. And the following autumn there is Nina whose yearning for her Russian home brings Molkho back to life.

Five Seasons is a subtle, unashamedly realistic novel about love and renewal, and the steadfast determination of a seasoned heart to live and love. It is A. B. Yehoshua’s third novel and has long been out of print.

A.B. Yehoshua

Born in Jerusalem in 1936, A.B. Yehoshua was the author of twelve novels, a collection of short stories, and several plays and volumes of essays. He has won prizes worldwide and his work has been translated into twenty-eight languages and adapted for film and opera. An outspoken critic of both Israeli and Palestinian policies, he continued to speak about and search for solutions to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Yehoshua died in June 2022, aged 85.

Visit our Remembering A.B. Yehoshua page to read some of the countless tributes and obituaries that have been written to celebrate Yehoshua’s incredible life and career.

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'Molkho’s adventures are quietly hilarious in the way Kafka is hilarious.'

     The New York Times Book Review

'The novel succeeds in charting the ways in which grief and passions cannot be cheated…'

     Financial Times

'A wonderfully engaging, exquisitely controlled, luminous work.’

     Washington Post Book World

‘In this finely observed and oddly moving comic novel…Yehoshua makes us feel [Molkho’s] humanity – and deftly wins him our sympathy.’

     Kirkus

‘one of Israel’s world-class writers’

     Saul Bellow