Early in the Summer of 1970

A. B. Yehoshua

1972

I believe I ought to go over the moment when I learned of his death once more.

A summer morning, the sky wide, June, last days of the school year. I rise late, faintly stunned, straight into the depths of light; don’t listen to the news, don’t look at the paper. It is as though I had lost my sense of time.

I get to school late, search the dim green…

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A. B. Yehoshua

b. 1936

A. B. Yehoshua is an author, playwright, and essayist. Jerusalem-born, he served in the military, taught in Paris, and was a professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at Haifa University. Yehoshua has written numerous best-selling novels as well as nonfiction, children’s books, and plays. His essays have appeared in the Israeli and foreign press. In 1995, Yehoshua received the Israel Prize for Literature.

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