Retrospective

<p><strong>A <em>New York Times Book Review</em> Editors' Choice<br />Winner 2012 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger </strong></p><p>"The greatest Hebrew novelist." -- <em>Jewish Review of Books</em></p><p>An aging Israeli film director has been invited to the pilgrimage city of Santiago de Compostela for a retrospective of his work. When Yair Moses arrives a painting over his bed triggers a distant memory from one of his early films: a scene that caused a rift with his brilliant but difficult screenwriter. Upon his return to Israel Moses decides to travel to the south to look for his elusive former partner and propose a new collaboration. But the screenwriter demands a price for it that will have strange and lasting consequences.</p><p>A searching and original novel by one of the world's most esteemed writers <em>The Retrospective</em> is a meditation on mortality and intimacy on the limits of memory and the struggle of artistic creation.</p><p>"[<em>The Retrospective</em>] moved me deeply." -- Vivian Gornick <em>The Nation </em></p><p>"[Yehoshua] achieves an autumnal tone as he ruminates on memory's slippery hold on life and on art." --<em> The New Yorker</em></p>