Zvi Luria has begun to lose his memory. At the beginning he only
makes small mistakes, forgetting first names and taking home the
wrong child from his grandson's kindergarten, but he knows that
things will only get worse. He's 73 and a retired road engineer.
His neurologist hints at the path his illness might take and
suggests ways of comabtting it, with the help of his wife Dina.
Dina, a respected paediatrician, is keen for him to return to
meaningful activity, and suggests he volunteers to work with his
old colleagues at the Israel Roads Authority. This is how Luria
finds himself at the Ramon Crater in the Negev desert planning a
secret road for the army with the son of his former colleague. But
there's a mystery about a certain hill on the route of this road.
Who are the people living there and why are they trapped? And
should the hill be flattened and the family evicted, or should a
tunnel beneath it be built? With humour and great tenderness, A.B.
Yehoshua depicts the love between Luria and his wife as they
confront the challenges of his illness. Just when Luria's sense of
identity becomes more compromised, then does he find himself,
enabling a rich meditation on the entwined identities of Israeli
Jews and Palestinians and on the nature of memory itself. Yehoshua
weaves a masterful story about a long and loving marriage,
interlaced with biting social commentary and caustic humour.
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