Promises I Made My Mother by Sam Haskell

Promises I Made My Mother by Sam Haskell

A couple, long married, are spending an unaccustomed week apart. Ya'ari, an engineer, is busy juggling the day-to-day needs of his elderly father, his children, and his grandchildren. His wife, Daniela, flies from Tel Aviv to East Africa to mourn the death of her older sister. There she confronts her anguished brother-in-law, Yirmiyahu, whose soldier son was killed six years earlier in the West Bank by friendly fire. Yirmiyahu is now managing a team of African researchers digging for the bones of man's primate ancestors as he desperately strives to detach himself from every shred of his identity, Jewish and Israeli.

With great artistry, A. B. Yehoshua has once again written a rich, compassionate, rewarding novel in which sharply rendered details of modern Israeli life and age-old mysteries of human existence echo one another in complex and surprising ways.

A. B. Yehoshua is one of Israel's preeminent writers. His novels include Journey to the End of the Millenium, The Liberated Bride, and A Woman in Jerusalem, which was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 2007. He lives in Haifa.

PRAISE FOR A. B.YEHOSHUA

A master storyteller whose tales reveal the inner life of a vital, conflicted nation. -The Wall Street Journal
Wherever this innovative, erudite, suggestive, mysterious writer - a true master of contemporary fiction - points us, there can be no doubt, it is essential that we go. -The Washington Post

Sam Haskell moved from Mississippi to Los Angeles in 1978 to work at the William Morris Agency. He became an agent in 1980, senior vice president by 1990, executive vice president by 1995, and Worldwide Head of Television by 1999. After a twenty-six-year career, he retired in 2004 to pursue philanthropic endeavors. In 2007 he was named one of the 25 Most Innovative and Influential People in Television over the last quarter century by TV Week. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Mary Donnelly Haskell (his college sweetheart and a former Miss Mississippi), and their two children, Sam IV and Mary Lane.
David Rensin has written or co-written thirteen books, five of them New York Times bestsellers. His most recent titles are All for a Few Perfect Waves: The Audacious Life and Legend of Rebel Surfer Miki Dora and The Mailroom: Hollywood History from the Bottom Up.

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ISBN 13	9780345506559
ISBN 10	0345506553
Title	Promises I Made My Mother
Author	Sam Haskell
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2009-04-28
Number of pages	236
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