Second Person Singular: A Novel

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Second Person Singular: A Novel

An award-winning novel of love, betrayal, and Arab Israeli identity by the author of Dancing Arabsâ€”â€œone of the most important contemporary Hebrew writersâ€ (Haaretz).
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A successful Arab criminal attorney and a social worker-turned-artist find their lives intersecting under the most curious of circumstances. The lawyer has a thriving practice in Jerusalem, a large house, and a Mercedes. He speaks both Arabic and Hebrew, and lives with his wife and two young children. To maintain his image as a sophisticated Israeli Arab, he makes frequent visits to a local bookstore and picks up popular novels. But on one fateful evening, he decides to buy a used copy of Tolstoyâ€™s The Kreutzer Sonata, a book his wife once recommended. Tucked in its pages, he finds a love letter, in ArabicÂ .Â .Â . in his wifeâ€™s handwriting.
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Consumed with suspicion and jealousy, he decides to hunt down the bookâ€™s previous ownerâ€”a man named Yonatan. But Yonatanâ€™s identity is more complex than the attorney imagined. In the process of dredging up old ghosts and secrets, the lawyer breaks the fragile threads that hold all of their lives together.
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Winner of the 2011 Bernstein Prize, Second Person Singular is â€œpart comedy of manners, part psychological mysteryâ€ (The Boston Globe) that offers â€œsharp insights on the assumptions made about race, religion, ethnicity, and class that shape Israeli identityâ€ (Publishers Weekly).
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â€œ[Kashuaâ€™s] dry wit shines.â€ â€”Los Angeles Times
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â€œKashuaâ€™s protagonists struggle, often comicallyÂ .Â .Â . making his narratives more nuanced than some of the other Arabs writing about the conflictâ€ â€”Newsweek
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â€œSayed Kashua is a brilliant, funny, humane writer who effortlessly overturns any and all preconceptions about the Middle East. God, I love him.â€ â€”Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story

Country	USA
Author	Sayed Kashua
Binding	Kindle Edition
Creator	Mitch Ginsburg
EISBN	9780802194640
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Grove Press
Manufacturer	Grove Press
NumberOfPages	352
PublicationDate	2012-04-03
Publisher	Grove Press
ReleaseDate	2018-09-01
Studio	Grove Press

Second Person Singular: A Novel

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