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Mr Amos Oz
Amos Oz, Israel’s preeminent writer, once again displays his mastery of human nature as he spins a rich tapestry of character and political intrigue out of the birth of Israel…
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Previously published: Whose Holy Land? New York: Vintage, 1994.
A literary celebrity is in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night to give a reading from his new book. While the obligatory inane questions are being asked and answered…
An eleven-year-old boy in British-occupied Jerusalem trades away one possession after another, only to find something much more wonderful–his first love. In the tradition of such memorable characters as Huckleberry…
After seven years with no communication, a divorcee writes a letter to her ex-husband begging for help with their rebellious son. That single epistle opens a flood gate of correspondence…
With rare wit, intimate knowledge of the human heart, and his usual storytelling mastery, one of Israel’s most highly acclaimed writers and the author of A Perfect Peace portrays a…
Three stories in which history and imaginative narrative intertwine to re-create the world of Jerusalem during the last days of the British Mandate. A book as complex, vivid and uncompromising…
Set in Jerusalem at the time of the Suez crisis, this is a study of a woman’s retreat from an unhappy marriage into a private world of fantasy and repressed…
Amos Oz’s first book: a disturbing and beautiful collection of short stories about kibbutz life. Written in the ‘60s, these eight stories convey the tension and intensity of feeling in…
Oz’s most adventurous and inventive novel, this is the book by which he would like to be remembered. The cast of characters ranges from a prodigal son to a widowed…
Two novellas showing the atmosphere of hatred in which Jews must live, die, and struggle for rationality both historically and in the present. Woodcuts by Jacob Pins. A Helen and…
A provocative new story collection from the internationally celebrated author of A Tale of Love and Darkness
In the early 1980s, Israel’s celebrated novelist Amos Oz traveled throughout his country, recording its history as spoken by its inhabitants. First published in English 10 years ago, this timeless…
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As the Germans advance into Poland in 1939, Elisha Pomeranz, a Jewish mathematician and watchmaker, escapes into the forest, leaving behind his wife, Stepha. After the war, having evaded the…
In the summer of 1989, at Tel-Kedar, a small settlement in the Negev Desert, the long time love affair between Theo, a sixty-year-old civil engineer, and Noa, a much younger…
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A rich and varied selection of writings–from the early 1960s to the present–by Amos Oz, one of Israel’s leading novelists, public intellectuals, and political activists.
A novel in stories by acclaimed Israeli author Amos Oz.
Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this family saga tells the the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the 1940s and 50s and fifties. It is…
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Winner of the International Literature Prize, the new novel by Amos Oz is his first full-length work since the best-selling A Tale of Love and Darkness.
