The Retrospective

The Retrospective

<DIV><B>A <I>New York Times Book Review</I> Editors’ Choice<BR>Winner, 2012 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger </B><BR><BR>“The greatest Hebrew novelist.” — <I>Jewish Review of Books</I><BR><BR>An aging Israeli film director has been invited to the pilgrimage city of Santiago de Compostela for a retrospective of his work. When Yair Moses arrives, a painting over his bed triggers a distant memory from one of his early films: a scene that caused a rift with his brilliant but difficult screenwriter. Upon his return to Israel, Moses decides to travel to the south to look for his elusive former partner and propose a new collaboration. But the screenwriter demands a price for it that will have strange and lasting consequences.<BR><BR>A searching and original novel by one of the world’s most esteemed writers, <I>The Retrospective</I> is a meditation on mortality and intimacy, on the limits of memory and the struggle of artistic creation.<BR><BR>“[<I>The Retrospective</I>] moved me deeply.” — Vivian Gornick, <I>The Nation </I><BR><BR>“[Yehoshua] achieves an autumnal tone as he ruminates on memory’s slippery hold on life and on art.” —<I> The New Yorker</I></div>