The Lover

The Lover is a dreamlike novel by the Israeli writer A.B. Yehoshua. A husband goes looking for his wife's lover, who has vanished in the turmoil of the Yom Kippur War. That search is the heart of the book.

The story is told from five different perspectives. Through them, Yehoshua examines the realities and consequences of the affair and of the search itself. In doing so he exposes deep-rooted tensions within a family, between generations, and between Jews and Arabs.