{"product_id":"9780547541419","title":"The Liberated Bride","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn 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” (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 Arab bride from a village in the Galilee—is assigned to help with his research in recent Algerian history, a two-pronged mystery develops. As they probe the causes of the bloody Algerian civil war, Rivlin also becomes obsessed with his son’s failed marriage. Rivlin’s search leads to a number of improbable escapades. In this comedy of manners, at once deeply serious and highly entertaining, Yehoshua brilliantly portrays characters from disparate sectors of Israeli life, united above all by a very human desire for, and fear of, the truth in politics and life.","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47113367814384,"sku":"9780547541419","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780547541419_p0.jpg?v=1769915992","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780547541419","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}