Title: A shadow of Yehoshua's "The Lover"
Product review: I don't like this book.At first it resembles with A.B. Yehoshua'sThe Lover(which I absolutely LOVED), in sampling different characters' perspectives and telling the story in a stream-of-consciousness style, unreliable narrators, marital breakdown by cheating but idealistic wives, and threads of psychological disturbances and emotional complexity. Albeit it sheds interesting points about modern Israeli society such as tensions between Ashkenazim and Sephardim. But this story is abstract in the non-sensical way that it gets in the way of relating to the reader. It's a little "selfish", more like a writer/characters' way of mental masturbation by spewing out their notions than truly engaging the reader.
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