The Liberated Bride: A Novel

An Israeli professor and an Arab student join forces in a witty novel that "tells a simple story about a region that complicates all it touches" (The New Yorker).

Yochanan Rivlin, a professor at Haifa University, is a man of boundless and often naïve 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 Ara...