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The Retrospective by A. B. Yehoshua is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Retrospective about?
Winner, Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger. 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.
Who reads The Retrospective?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- A. B. Yehoshua
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.4 / 5 (86 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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