Price £12.99
Format Paperback & ebook
Published 7 July 2022
Length 144 pages
ISBN 9781912600137
ISBN 9781912600144 (ebook)

Reviews

The Jewish Chronicle, July 2022
TLS, September 2022
Tel Aviv Review of Books, September 2022
New York Times, April 2023
Kirkus, January 2023

Interviews

Cultural Daily, January 2022

The Only Daughter by A.B. Yehoshua

Translated from the Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman

Rachele Luzzatto is the only daughter of a Jewish family in northern Italy. Curious and intelligent, she is caught between her interest in religions – her own and others – and her father’s violent rejection of them all.

A disagreement ensues between them about the part she is given in the school nativity play. At the same time, she discovers that her father is ill; the severity of his illness is only revealed to her very gradually while her teacher, various members of her family and even her rabbi offer her wide-ranging and humane support.

A.B. Yehoshua paints a complex, and humorous, picture of conflicting religious identities and historical memory in this tender character study of a young girl at the threshold of adulthood.

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 Homepage to read some of the countless tributes and obituaries that have been written to celebrate Yehoshua’s incredible life and career.

Stuart Schoffman

Stuart Schoffman was a writer, translator, educator, historian, screenwriter, humourist, a shrewd observer of people and a fount of knowledge which we joyfully shared for many years. Stuart died in November 2021 after battling a serious illness. He enriched our lives personally and professionally and we shall miss him deeply.

A close friend to A.B. Yehoshua, Stuart combined his scholarly assiduity, lightness of touch and unique ear for the ‘music’ of Hebrew to translate the following of Yehoshua’s works into English: The Tunnel, The Extra, The Retrospective, A Woman in Jerusalem, Friendly Fire.

Tributes to Stuart can be read in The Times of Israel, The Jerusalem Post and Haaretz. In 2022, the National Library of Israel instituted an Annual Lecture Series in Memory of Stuart Schoffman.

Long-listed for the Wingate Prize, 2022

“A book filled with feeling and moral values.”
— The New York Times

“This short book reaffirms A. B. Yehoshua’s belief that art can help us to live with an open heart.”

— Times Literary Supplement

“It is an extraordinary book, quite unlike anything else by [Yehoshua], a wonderful farewell from a great literary master, full of references to his own life and work.”
- The Jewish Chronicle

News

The Last Chapter of A.B. Yehoshua Featured in New York Jewish Film Festival

Israeli documentary about A.B. Yehoshua featured in line-up of 24 features and 9 shorts that make up this year’s New York Jewish Film Festival.