Yochanan Rivlin, a professor at Haifa University, is a man of
boundless and often naive curiosity. His wife, Hagit, a district
judge, is tolerant of almost everything but her husband's faults
and prevarications. Frequent arguments aside, they are a
well-adjusted couple with two grown sons.When one of Rivlin's
students-a young Arab bride from a village in the Galilee-is
assigned to help with his research in recent Algerian history, a
two-pronged mystery develops. As they probe the causes of the
bloody Algerian civil war, Rivlin also becomes obsessed with his
son's failed marriage. Rivlin's search leads to a number of
improbable escapades. In this comedy of manners, at once deeply
serious and highly entertaining, Yehoshua brilliantly portrays
characters from disparate sectors of Israeli life, united above all
by a very human desire for, and fear of, the truth in politics and
life.
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