A husband seeks his wife’s lover who has vanished in the turbulence of Israel’s Yom Kippur War. As his quest unfolds and intensifies, the main protagonists are drawn into the search and transformed by it. Through the different perspective of husband, wife, teenage daughter and young Arab emerges a complex picture of the uneasy present, the tension between generations, between Israel’s past and future, between Jews and Arabs…
 
The Lover was A. B. Yehoshua’s first novel and immediately brought him international recognition. It is brilliant, compassionate, highly original and as accomplished as all his later works.