The novel “The Lover” became a bestseller and glorified the name of its author, A. B. Yehoshua. The book fascinates with its paradoxical combination of simplicity and mystery. The souls of the heroes sleep mysteriously - Adam with his tired Jewish blood, his underage mistress, his wife - the “bluestocking”, her lover - a kind of “Prince Myshkin”, Adam’s young daughter and the Arab boy, her lover. It is not political upheavals that awaken the heroes to life, but the thirst for love. Enslaved sensuality spills out into freedom with carnal, animal passion, criminally breaks all prohibitions and crushes callousness of the heart, opening souls to human unity.