The Retrospective: Translated From the Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman

✍ Scribed by Yehoshua, A B

• Book ID: 109342268
• Publisher: Halban Publishers
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 979 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780547496962

✦ Synopsis

Winner, Prix du Meilleur Livre etranger 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 and Ruth, his leading actress and longtime muse, settle into their hotel room, a painting over their bed triggers a distant memory in Moses from one of his early films: a scene that caused a rift with his brilliant but difficult screenwriter--who, as it happens, was once Ruth's lover. Upon their 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.