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Journeying to India to retrieve his superior's seriously ill daughter, gifted physician Benjy falls deeply in love with his superior's wife, a situation that becomes complicated when he himself becomes dangerously ill. 20,000 first printing. Tour.
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Unlike Yehoshua's previous books, the motives of his central character in his fifth novel, Open Heart, appear unrelated to the larger social changes in Israeli society. During an assignment to India, Dr. Benjamin Rubin falls in love with the country's spiritual mystery and the nurturing sexuality of his patient's mother. In looking to the East for enlightenment, he neglects his religious heritage, even as others are reclaiming traditional Jewish culture. As he immerses himself in newfound religion, one is forced to wonder if Rubin is genuinely acknowledging the self's larger place in the cosmos or is simply on an opportunistic venture to mask his own impoverished spirit.
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A. B. Yehoshua teaches literature at Haifa University.
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- PublisherDoubleday
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0385267932
- ISBN 13 9780385267939
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages498
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