num_pages: 568
description: Yochanan Rivlin, a professor of Near Eastern Studies at Haifa University, is equally determined to understand the causes of the Algerian civil war of the 1990s and the mystery of his son's divorce. His is a double search for truth, each involving a different bride - Samaher, his own research assistant, an ambitious Arab newlywed from a village in the Galilee, and Galya, who deserted his son in Jerusalem with no explanation. Against his wife's better judgment (Hagit is a judge by profession), he explores relationships at once personal and political - man and wife, father and son, teacher and pupil, Israeli and Arab.
language: English
title: The Liberated Bride
titlecomplete: The Liberated Bride
genres: Jewish, Novels, Israel, Literature, Romance, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 751
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Sapir Prize
category: Literature, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: PEN Translation Prize
category: Hillel Halkin, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Premio Tomasi di Lampedusa, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Premio San Clemente Rosalía-Abanca
category: Lingua estranxeira
publisher: HarperVia