{"product_id":"9780547427553","title":"Friendly Fire: A Duet","description":"\u003cb\u003e“A fine novel of loss and hope” set in modern Israel and East Africa, from the author of \u003ci\u003eA Woman in Jerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e During Hanukkah, Ya’ari, an engineer, and his wife, Daniela, are spending an unaccustomed week apart after years of marriage. While he’s kept busy juggling the day-to-day needs of his elderly father, his children, and his grandchildren, Daniela flies from Tel Aviv to East Africa to mourn the death of her older sister.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e There she confronts her anguished brother-in-law, Yirmi, whose soldier son was killed six years earlier in the West Bank by “friendly fire.” Yirmi is now managing a team of African researchers digging for the bones of man’s primate ancestors—as he desperately strives to detach himself from every shred of his identity, Jewish and Israeli.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e From an author who has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, this is “a haunting book . . . that will resonate for a long time in the minds of its readers” (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “As in each of his wisely tragicomic novels, Yehoshua orchestrates nearly absurd predicaments that serve as conduits to Israel’s confounding conflicts, which so intensely and sorrowfully encapsulate our endless struggle for peace and belonging.” —\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47177368010992,"sku":"9780547427553","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780547427553_p0.jpg?v=1769896484","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780547427553","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}