{"product_id":"second-person-singular-9780802121202","title":"Second Person Singular","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn award-winning novel of love, betrayal, and Arab Israeli identity by the author of Dancing Arabs—\"one of the most important contemporary Hebrew writers\" (\u003ci\u003eHaaretz\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA successful Arab criminal attorney and a social worker-turned-artist find their lives intersecting under the most curious of circumstances. The lawyer has a thriving practice in Jerusalem, a large house, and a Mercedes. He speaks both Arabic and Hebrew, and lives with his wife and two young children. To maintain his image as a sophisticated Israeli Arab, he makes frequent visits to a local bookstore and picks up popular novels. But on one fateful evening, he decides to buy a used copy of Tolstoy's \u003ci\u003eThe Kreutzer Sonata\u003c\/i\u003e, a book his wife once recommended. Tucked in its pages, he finds a love letter, in Arabic . . . in his wife's handwriting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsumed with suspicion and jealousy, he decides to hunt down the book's previous owner—a man named Yonatan. But Yonatan's identity is more complex than the attorney imagined. In the process of dredging up old ghosts and secrets, the lawyer breaks the fragile threads that hold all of their lives together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2011 Bernstein Prize, \u003ci\u003eSecond Person Singular\u003c\/i\u003e is \"part comedy of manners, part psychological mystery\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e) that offers \"sharp insights on the assumptions made about race, religion, ethnicity, and class that shape Israeli identity\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[Kashua's] dry wit shines.\" —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Kashua's protagonists struggle, often comically . . . making his narratives more nuanced than some of the other Arabs writing about the conflict\" —\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sayed Kashua is a brilliant, funny, humane writer who effortlessly overturns any and all preconceptions about the Middle East. God, I love him.\" —Gary Shteyngart, author of \u003ci\u003eSuper Sad True Love Story\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Sayed Kashua","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42956062195830,"sku":"9780802121202","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_96f2d3f3-184d-4ccb-8131-5180037f267e.jpg?v=1767772291","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/second-person-singular-9780802121202","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}