'A Perfect Peace' & 'The Lover'

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This paper reviews, discusses and compares the books 'A Perfect Peace' by Amos Oz and 'The Lover', by Abraham Yehoshua. According to the paper, Israelis and Palestinians are locked in a fierce, historical culture of loathing for one another. The paper goes on to say that there is little if anything a community and its individuals can do about the big picture of war, albeit people in homes and neighborhoods theoretically could create a peaceful existence removed from suffering. But in the two novels reviewed in this paper, even at the family and married couple level, there is no way to remove suffering from caring lives.

From the Paper:

"In Abraham Yehoshua's The Lover, war is again an ongoing theme - which is predictable and understandable coming from Israeli authors - and along with war are numerous kinds of suffering. On page 3, there are "so many missing, so many mysteries" as to what happened to soldiers who cannot be accounted for. And compounding the fact of soldiers missing in battle, is the sense of deep suffering the loved ones endure as they gather the "last remnants - scraps of clothing, bits of charred documents, twisted pens," and, brutally painful is certainly would be for any family member to discover "bullet-ridden wallets" and "melted wedding rings."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Oz, Amos. A Perfect Peace. Orlando, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985.
• Yehoshua, Abraham B. The Lover. Orlando: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977.

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