Volume 31, Number 10 · June 14, 1984
Breaking Up in Haifa
By Gabriele Annan
A Late Divorce
by A.B. Yehoshua, Translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin
Doubleday, 354 pp., $16.95
Ben-Gurion is supposed to have said that the day an Israeli cop arrested an Israeli crook Israel would have become a country like any other. In this novel deceptively like any other such an arrest takes place. Not that A Late Divorce is a thriller, but it belongs to an equally familiar genre: a family novel about the kind of ordinarily neurotic people who might congregate for a stressful Christmas in Connecticut. In this case they assemble in Haifa for the Passover. There is even a chapter in the form of an analysis with the patient on the couch.
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