Yizhar reasserted his position as the greatest living master of Hebrew prose with his last novel, Preliminaries. Strongly autobiographical, this sensual, powerful novel, laden with scents and colors,
"Exhilarating . . . How often can you say about a harrowing, unquiet book that it makes you wrestle with your soul?" —Neel Mukherjee, The Times (London)It’s 1948 and the Arab villagers of Khirbet Khiz
