A. B. YehoshuaLiterary Fiction·1936–2022
A Late Divorce
Synopsis
Five years after a violent confrontation with his wife, Yehuda Kaminka returns to Israel from the United States to seek a divorce.
The novel follows the lives of the Kaminka family members — including his institutionalized wife Naomi, and their three adult children Tsvi, Asa, and Ya'el — as each grapples with their own marital and personal crises set against the backdrop of modern Israeli life.
Told through alternating first-person chapters, the book explores themes of unrequited love, generational estrangement, and the enduring impact of the Holocaust and the kibbutz movement on the Israeli psyche.
How it reads
Prose complexity 7/10
Content warnings (1)
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