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Friendly Fire: A Duet (2007)

by Abraham B. Yehoshua(Favorite Author)

3.58 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0151014191 (ISBN13: 9780151014194)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

review 1: Yehosha did a wonderful job with this novel. His style of writing invokes a great deal of sympathy for the characters and situations he has written and the story he tells. He has taken two stories, ran them along side each other and drawn parallels between the Jewish suffering throughout the world and the Sudanese suffering in Africa.Sometimes the book is a bit disjointed and the parallels are difficult to see, but all in all it's a very nice piece of writing, and well worth reading if only for the ease Yehoshua has in drawing the reader in with his prose.
review 2: I went looking for a different Yehoshua book in the library, which they don't own, and checked out this title instead. I claim that it's my healthy alternative to impulse buying in a shopping mall.... more Even though I have twenty-some titles on my To Read list, all thoroughly vetted by Friends' recommendations, I'm still driven to taking risks and choosing a book by it's cover! Call me Crazy!The story is a tale of an Israeli couple, Amotz and Daniela, who are separated for eight days while the wife visits her brother-in-law in Africa. B-i-l is an Israeli ex-pat and Daniela goes to see him to find closure in her sister's recent death. Yehoshua builds the story around the eight-day festival of Chanukah. Amotz celebrates the various nights' candle lighting in Israel with his adult children, grandchildren and business associates. Daniela spends the time with B-i-l who in his grief has shunned all things Israel and all things Jewish. Both Amotz and Daniela spend their time doing lots of things they didn't plan on doing. The story is a well-written character driven novel. Yehoshua alternates his sub-chapters between Africa and Israel in an almost too rigid fashion, jumping back and forth in short three to five page chunks. Not a typical novel with a strong plot and resolved conflict, but an easy read nonetheless. less

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