Admired by Bellow, indebted to Faulkner, a giant of Jewish literature dies at 85
The highly accomplished Israeli novelist Abraham Gabriel Yehoshua, who died June 14 at age 85, made a career-long habit of confounding the Jewish custom of talking tachlis with mere tactlessness. Author of such major works as “The Lover,” “A Late Divorce,” “Five Seasons” and “Mr. Mani,” which he signed with the pen name A.B. Yehoshua,…