Amos Oz

• Nov-2016
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Jerusalem, 1959. Shmuel Ash, a biblical scholar, is adrift in his young life when he finds work as a caregiver for a brilliant but cantankerous old man named Gershom Wald. There is, however, a third, mysterious presence in his new home. Atalia Abarba...

• Sep-2013
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In Between Friends, Amos Oz returns to the kibbutz of the late 1950s, the time and place where his writing began. These eight interconnected stories, set in the fictitious Kibbutz Yekhat, draw masterly profiles of idealistic men and women enduring pe...

• Aug-2012
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Amos Oz's first book -- beautifully repackaged -- is a disturbing and moving collection of short stories about kibbutz life. Each of the eight stories in this volume grips the reader from the first line. Each conveys the tension and intensity of ...

• Oct-2011
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A portrait of a fictional village, by one of the world's most admired writers In the village of Tel Ilan, something is off kilter. An elderly man complains to his daughter that he hears the sound of digging under his house at night. Could it be his ...

• Apr-2011
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In a gray and gloomy village, all of the animals -- from dogs and cats to fish and snails -- disappeared years before. No one talks about it and no one knows why, though everyone agrees that the village has been cursed. But when two children see a fi...

• Apr-2009
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The Reader draws on Oz’s entire body of work, loosely grouped into four themes: the kibbutz, the city of Jerusalem, the idea of a "promised land," and his own life story. Included are excerpts from his celebrated novels, among them Where the Jackal...

• Apr-2009
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Fiction and reality merge inside the mind of a famous Israeli author in this "hilarious and profound . . . slyly philosophical novel" (Booklist). In this novel, Amos Oz offers a prismatic portrait of the storytelling impulse, ...

• Nov-2005
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• Oct-2004
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Unto Death comprises two novellas by one of Isreal's most gifted writers. In Crusade and Late Love Oz explores the atmosphere of hatred in which Jews live, die, or degenerate into insanity. In Crusade a band of Crusaders journey towards Jerusalem, at...

• Apr-2002
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The Same Sea is Amos Oz's most adventurous and inventive novel, the book by which he would like to be remembered. The cast of characters ranges from a prodigal son to a widowed father who has taken in his son's enticing young girlfriend, who in turn ...

• Aug-1997
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From “a great and true voice of our time” (Washington Post Book World), comes this story of Proffy, a twelve-year-old living in Palestine in 1947. When Proffy befriends a member of the occupying British forces who shares his love of language and ...

• Sep-1996
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"A delicate contemporary tale about the quiddities of love and the perpetual mysteries of human motivations" from the bestselling Israeli author of Judas (Los Angeles Times).A New York Times Notable Book of the Year At Tel-Kedar, a settlement in t...

• Aug-1995
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A tale of "dazzling brilliance . . . a simple story which conveys boundless meanings both modest and diverse, set in Jerusalem directly after WWII" (Historical Novel Society). When Soumchi, an eleven-year-old boy growing up in Briti...

• Dec-1994
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The National Jewish Book Award�"winning author presents an "astonishing . . . galvanic and intoxicating" portrait of a man -- and a generation -- adrift (The New Yorker). Efraim "Fima" Nisan lives in Jerusalem, but feels he ought t...

• May-1993
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“Oz’s strangest, riskiest, and richest novel.” -- Washington Post Book WorldIsrael, just before the Six-Day War. On a kibbutz, the country’s founders and their children struggle to come to terms with their land and with each other. The me...

• May-1992
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As an Israeli secret service agent, Yoel Ravid’s ability to sense the truth made him invaluable. Now widowed and retired, he lives with his mother, his mother-in-law, his daughter, and the haunting memory of his wife. A New York Times Notable Book ...

• Apr-1991
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The third novel from the international bestselling author of Judas. "A profusion of delightful passages couched in unfailingly lovely language." -- The New York Times Book Review 1939. As the Nazis advance into Poland, a Jewish mathematician and ...

• Feb-1991
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"Thoughtful, self-assured and highly sophisticated, full of the most skillful modulations of tone and texture. A modern Israeli Madame Bovary." -- The New York Times Book Review Set in 1950s Jerusalem, My Michael is the story of a remote and int...

• Mar-1989
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Seven years after their divorce, Ilana breaks the bitter silence with a letter to Alex, a world-renowned authority on fanaticism, begging for help with their rebellious adolescent son, Boaz. One letter leads to another, and so evolves a correspo...

• Mar-1985
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The renowned Israeli author's debut novel. "An appealing tribute to the persistence of pathos and warmth among human beings clustered against the night." -- Kirkus Reviews Situated only two miles from a hostile border, Amos Oz's fictional communi...

• Dec-1982
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Three stories of "sensuous prose and indelible imagery" that re-create the world of Jerusalem during the last days of the British Mandate (The New York Times).   Refugees drawn to Jerusalem in search of safety are confronted by activ...

• 1981
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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 the founding period of Israel, a brand-new state with an age-old ...

• May-1978
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“Brilliant and insistent . . . The prose is sharp as a cameo, simple yet compelling, smoky, precise, lustrous, eerie.” -- Boston Sunday Globe Here Amos Oz captures the atmosphere of hatred in which Jews have lived, died, and struggled for under...