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      The Hill of Evil Counsel

      by Amos Oz
      Published
      Dec 1982
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      210
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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 activists relentlessly preparing for an uprising, oblivious to the risks. Meanwhile, a wife abandons her husband, and a dying man longs for his departed lover. Among these characters lives a boy named Uri, a friend and confidant of several conspirators who love and humor him as he weaves in and out of all three stories. The Hill of Evil Counsel is "as complex, vivid, and uncompromising as Jerusalem itself" (The Nation).


      "Oz evokes Israeli life with the same sly precision with which Chekhov evoked pre-Revolutionary Russian life." —Los Angeles Times

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      General Fiction

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      Literary

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      First Edition Dec 1982 Bantam ISBN13 9780553229219 ISBN10 0553229214
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      Apr 1991 Mariner ISBN13 9780156402750 ISBN10 0156402750
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      Mar 2005 Vintage (UK) ISBN13 9780099747406 ISBN10 0099747405
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      May 1978 Harcourt ISBN13 9780151402342 ISBN10 0151402345
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      Apr 1991 Harcourt ISBN13 9780547563886 ISBN10 0547563884
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      Apr 1991 Vintage ISBN13 9781448163137 ISBN10 1448163137
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      Apr 1991 Houghton Mifflin ISBN10 B004H1U1YS
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