{"product_id":"9780544139909","title":"Five Seasons: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis tale of an awkward Israeli widower and his misadventures with women is an “extraordinary novel . . . a masterpiece” (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e After seven long years of illness, Molkho’s wife passes, leaving him in mourning, but also with an unexpected sense of freedom. No longer is he bound to being a caretaker for a woman too sick to even bear his touch. His future—and his desires—are his own.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e As the seasons of his life propel the hapless middle-aged accountant through a series of journeys and a string of infatuations—with an unwanted wife, an aggressive bureaucrat, a young girl, and a Russian \u003ci\u003eémigré\u003c\/i\u003e—Molkho begins to find the real element that was missing in his life was not romance, but his own will.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e An absurd, tragic, humorous, and hopeful meditation on love, marriage, and the quiet struggles of average Israeli lives, \u003ci\u003eFive Seasons\u003c\/i\u003e “reconfirms [A. B. Yehoshua’s] status as a shrewd analyst of domestic ordeals” (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104337641712,"sku":"9780544139909","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780544139909_p0.jpg?v=1769915630","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780544139909","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}