ABOUT
THE BOOK

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 – Samahar, 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 judgement (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.