Speakers: AB Yehoshua, David Herman

One of the world’s most renowned novelists, A.B. Yehoshua has been dubbed, together with Amos Oz and David Grossman ‘one of the three tenors of Israeli literature’. In conversation with literary critic David Herman he discusses his life and work, and his new novel, The Tunnel, an exploration of identity, ageing, family, secrets and spies. Yehoshua’s protagonist Zvi Luria has begun to lose his memory. When his wife Dina, a respected paediatrician, suggests he uses his engineering skills to volunteer with the Israel Roads Authority, he finds himself in the Negev planning a secret road for the army. But there’s a mystery… With tenderness and empathy, Yehoshua presents a rich meditation on the entwined identities of Israeli Jews and Palestinians and on the nature of memory.