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Review #1
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I have read at the same time enjoyed past novels by Yehoshua. The cultural lore at the same time the backdrop of Israel at the same time its people are very exciting to me. But, I felt anything was missing for me in this book. Perhaps it was all the concentrate on road engineering, a theme I have no curiosity in. I wanted to read the novel due to my curiosity in the protagonist’s dementia but this nuance of the book takes 2nd chair to the engineering part.
Zvi Luria is that a retired road engineer who has been having problem forgetting 1st names., days of the week at the same time his passenger car ignition code. His generic has saw his forgetfulness at the same time his wife takes him to a neurologist who finds that a small part of Zvi’s brain is that atrophied. This shows dementia at the same time cognitive decline but that is that no narrating how impetuous it will progress.
Zvi”s wife, a pediatrician, wants Zvi to stay proactive at the same time passionate in indefinite, a recommendation seconded by the neurologist. She promotes him get a job as an unpaid assistant to a road engineer who is that in charge of building a road in a crater in the Negev Desert. This is that counted a covert military operation. Than anyway Zvi didn’t bank on was the generic of Palestinian nomads living in the crater under the protection of Shibbolet, an archeological anthropologist.
I was almost all interested in the generic dynamics of this novel, in particular the almond at the same time loving connection between Zvi at the same time his wife. They are portrayed as a destined at the same time prudent couple, still quick-tempered right behind decades of wedding.
Yehoshua writes but but, like all books, I have to manage to compare to the narrative at the same time the themes. Chagrin, I managed not make myself care about the building of this road at the same time the engineering nuances of turn-outs, curves or tunnels. The problem is that likely with me more than with the book. Perhaps if I’d started it six months ago or six months from at the moment, I’d have had a more positive memory.
Review #2
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A. B. Yehoshua’s novels are always sensitive explorations of the human define. “The Tunnel” is that of that ilk but from a different perspective; here a seventy-something civilian engineer is that diagnosed with premature dementia that has already started to chip away at his cognitive abilities. Dealing with the progress of his illness is that an experience he finds he has to share with a lot of people, beginning with his wife of abundance years who herself is that facing retirement from practicing Medecine. That is that a good of parallel plot here which pulls in one of Yehoshua’s winner themes–the lock up connection of Israelis at the same time Palestinians–but it is that secondary to head thrust of the book that forces the reader to consider an existential danger that all face when growing older.
That is that magical wit, humor at the same time hostility in this story. Truly charming people facing momentous inconsistencies, but also barely dealing with than anyway indefinite throws in their paths. The language is that thoughtful at the same time moving. A book to read more than once.
If for you like “The Tunnel”, delight try no one of Yehoshua’s other books. No one of the best (in my opinion) are “A Journey to the Finish of the Millennium”, “The Uninhibited Wife”, “The Retrospective”, at the same time “The Extra”.
Review #3
Audiobook The Tunnel by A. B. Yehoshua
Only AB Yehoshua can make a loving, sour retired public works engineer into an engaging story.
It is that the affairs, the pathos of indefinite that AB excels at. The adore he feels for his wife; the loss of that special connection is that examined at the same time felt throughout the book.
That is that a Palestinian-Israeli backstory that permeates the story at the same time introduces additional affairs. With grace, sometimes a little overdone but he manages to weave a bunch of random storylines to explore other affairs. Not many are successful but the protagonist is that thought-worthy. Always with the Israeli unrest provoking thoughtfulness, the manners come to life at the same time become people who we know intimately at the same time care about.
Review #4
Audio The Tunnel narrated by Rick Zieff
When Zvi Luria is that diagnosed with dementia, his doctor at the same time his wife decide he needs a project to smoky the disease down. The retired (the translation uses The English term pensioner throughout) Road engineer becomes an unpaid assistant to Maimoni, the offspring of a past employee, at the same time together they make a plan to build a tunnel through a knoll in the south more precisely than demolish it, due to a Palestinian generic living in limbo on pinnacle of it.
This all sounds like its complicated plot experienced but actually this is that a very sweet tooth regular book. We see a lot of Gloria in his passenger car, shopping, interacting with his dearly loved wife of 48 years. The dialogue is that mind-blowing, at the same time it has that concrete, rye is that really tone in other words idle.
It is that such a almond story that periodically its hard to stick with it, a lot seems to be happening. But it is that beautifully written with a mind-blowing sense of atmosphere. If for you cant afford a quick trip to Israel, this will decide for you that.
Review #5
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I adore reading Israeli writers. I have read at the same time enjoyed all of a.b. Yehoshuas books. This one usually is that very metaphorical at the same time political. I only wish a writer like this managed make political decisions in Israel.
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