The Retrospective

A "New York Times Book Review" Editors' Choice
Winner, 2012 Prix du Meilleur Livre etranger
"The greatest Hebrew novelist." -- "Jewish Review of Books"
An aging Israeli film director has been invited to the pilgrimage city of Santiago de Compostela for a retrospective of his work. When [...]
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A "New York Times Book Review" Editors' Choice
Winner, 2012 Prix du Meilleur Livre etranger
"The greatest Hebrew novelist." -- "Jewish Review of Books"
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.
A searching and original novel by one of the world's most esteemed writers, "The Retrospective" is a meditation on mortality and intimacy, on the limits of memory and the struggle of artistic creation.
" "The Retrospective"] moved me deeply." -- Vivian Gornick, "The Nation "
" Yehoshua] achieves an autumnal tone as he ruminates on memory's slippery hold on life and on art." --" The New Yorker"