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Open heart
- Title
- Open heart / A.B. Yehoshua ; translated by Dalya Bilu.
- Author
- Yehoshua, Abraham B.
- Publication
- New York : Doubleday, 1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PJ5054.Y42 S55 1996 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Bilu, Dalya.
- Description
- 498 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- With the publication of Open Heart, internationally acclaimed Israeli novelist A. B. Yehoshua has written a psychological tour de force that takes as its subject nothing less than love and the nature of man's soul. From the opening lines of this first-person narrative, the reader is propelled into the mind of Dr. Benjamin Rubin, an ambitious young internist, who is jockeying for position with the hospital's top surgeons.
- But it isn't until Benjy learns that his internship has been terminated, and that he has been selected to accompany the hospital administrator and his wife to India to retrieve their ailing daughter, that Yehoshua sets his hero on a journey of self-discovery.
- This journey brings the supremely rational, coolheaded physician to surrender all his deeply held beliefs when his experience in India awakens an erotic passion that dares to destroy his tidy world as he pursues the illicit love of the administrator's wife.
- Uniform Title
- Shivah me-Hodu. English
- Alternative Title
- Shivah me-Hodu.
- Genre/Form
- Psychological fiction.
- Medical novels.
- ISBN
- 0385267932
- LCCN
- 95042527
- OCLC
- ocm33403344
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries