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Amos Oz

A Tale of Love and Darkness

Editura: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

Anul aparitiei: 2004

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award International Bestseller " An] ingenious work that circles around the rise of a state, the tragic destiny of a mother, a boy's creation of a new self." -- The New Yorker A family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history. A Tale of Love and Darkness is the story of a boy who grows up in war-torn Jerusalem, in a small apartment crowded with books in twelve languages and relatives speaking nearly as many. The story of an adolescent whose life has been changed forever by his mother's suicide. The story of a man who leaves the constraints of his family and community to join a kibbutz, change his name, marry, have children. The story of a writer who becomes an active participant in the political life of his nation. "One of the most enchanting and deeply satisfying books that I have read in many years." -- New Republic

Amos Oz

A Tale of Love and Darkness

Editura: Harvest Books

Anul aparitiei: 2005

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award International Bestseller " An] ingenious work that circles around the rise of a state, the tragic destiny of a mother, a boy's creation of a new self." -- The New Yorker A family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history. A Tale of Love and Darkness is the story of a boy who grows up in war-torn Jerusalem, in a small apartment crowded with books in twelve languages and relatives speaking nearly as many. The story of an adolescent whose life has been changed forever by his mother's suicide. The story of a man who leaves the constraints of his family and community to join a kibbutz, change his name, marry, have children. The story of a writer who becomes an active participant in the political life of his nation. "One of the most enchanting and deeply satisfying books that I have read in many years." -- New Republic

Amos Oz

The Amos Oz Reader

Editura: Mariner Books

Anul aparitiei: 2009

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 Jackals Howl, A Perfect Peace, My Michael, Fima, Black Box, and To Know a Woman. Nonfiction is represented by selections from Under This Blazing Light, The Slopes of Lebanon, In the Land of Israel, and Oz s masterpiece, A Tale of Love and Darkness. Robert Alter, a noted Hebrew scholar and translator, has provided an illuminating introduction. "

Amos Oz

How to Cure a Fanatic

Editura: Princeton University Press

Anul aparitiei: 2010

Internationally acclaimed novelist Amos Oz grew up in war-torn Jerusalem, where as a boy he witnessed firsthand the poisonous consequences of fanaticism. In two concise, powerful essays, the award-winning author offers unique insight into the true nature of extremism and proposes a reasoned and respectful approach to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He also comments on related issues--the Gaza pullout, Yasser Arafat's death, and the war in Iraq--in an extended interview at the end of the book. The brilliant clarity of these essays, coupled with Oz's ironic sense of humor in illuminating the serious, breathes new life into this old debate. Oz argues that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not a war of religion or cultures or traditions, but rather a real estate dispute--one that will be resolved not by greater understanding, but by painful compromise. Fresh, insightful, and inspiring, How to Cure a Fanatic brings a new voice of sanity to the cacophony on Israeli-Palestinian relations--a voice no one can afford to ignore.

Amos Oz

Panther in the Basement

Editura: Mariner Books

Anul aparitiei: 1998

Countries need writers as their voices of conscience; few have them. Israel has Oz. Washington Post The year is 1947: the last days of the British mandate in Palestine. Twelve-year-old Proffy, indoctrinated by his patriotic father and a zealous Bible teacher, dreams of dying heroically in battle, fighting for the creation of a Jewish state. Then he meets and befriends a kindly British soldier who shares with Proffy a love of language and the Bible. Accused of treason for the friendship, Proffy must learn the true nature of loyalty and betrayal. Panther in the Basement is a rich tapestry of character and political intrigue set against the birth of modern Israel. Insightful, inventive, and lyrical. New York Times Book Review"

Amos Oz

My Michael

Editura: Harvest Books

Anul aparitiei: 2005

"Thoughtful, self-assured and highly sophisticated, full of the most skillful modulations of tone and texture. A modern Israeli Madame Bovary. New York Times Book Review Set in 1950s Jerusalem, My Michael is the story of a remote and intense woman named Hannah Gonen and her marriage to a decent but unremarkable man named Michael. As the years pass and Hannah s tempestuous fantasy life encroaches upon reality, she feels increasingly estranged from him and the marriage gradually disintegrates. Gorgeously written, profoundly moving, this extraordinary novel is at once a haunting love story, and a rich reflective portrait of a place. "A dazzling, very beautiful, splendidly conceived and composed book." New York Review of Books"

Amos Oz

In the Land of Israel

Editura: Mariner Books

Anul aparitiei: 1993

An exemplary instance of a writer using his craft to come to grips with what is happening politically and to illuminate certain aspects of Israeli society that have generally been concealed by polemical formulas. The New York Times Notebook in hand, Amos Oz traveled throughout Israel and the West Bank in the early 1980s to talk with workers, soldiers, religious zealots, aging pioneers, new immigrants, desperate Arabs, and visionaries, asking them questions about Israel s past, present, and future. What he heard is set down here in those distinctive voices, alongside Oz s observations and reflections. A classic insider s view of a land whose complex past and troubled present make for an uncertain future. Oz s vignettes . . . wondrously re-create whole worlds with an economy of words. Philadelphia Inquirer"

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Black Box

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 1993

A powerful and tragicomic blend of politics and personal destiny, Black Box records in a series of letters the wrecked marriage of Ilana and Alex. Seven years of silence following their bitter divorce is broken when Ilana writes to Alex for help over their wayward and illiterate son, Boaz, and old emotional scars are reopened. Page dim. 198 x 131 x 17 Weight: 286 grams

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Fima

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 1994

Fima, our eponymous hero, is a receptionist at a gynaecology clinic. A preposterous, yet curiously attractive figure, he spends his hours fantasising about solving the nation's problems and pursuing women with equivocal success. Page dim. 199 x 132 x 19 Weight: 220 grams

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Scenes from Village Life

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2012

In this powerful, hynotic work Amos Oz peers into the darkness of our lives and gives us a glimpse of what goes on beneath the surface of everyday existence. By the winner of the 2013 Franz Kafka Prize, previous winners of which include Philip Roth, Ivan Klima, Elfriede Jelinek, Harold Pinter and John Banville. Page dim. 198 x 131 x 18 Weight: 222 grams

Oz Amos

Help Us To Divorce

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2004

Analyses the historical roots of violence and confronts truths about the extremism nurtured throughout society. In this book, the author convinces irrefutably that the Israel-Palestinian conflict is primarily a dispute over 'whose house this is'. Page dim. 149 x 101 x 8 Weight: 60 grams

Oz Amos

Don't Call It Night

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 1996

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 school teacher, is slowly disintegrating. Page dim. 198 x 133 x 13 Weight: 158 grams

Oz Amos

A Perfect Peace

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 1993

What he leaves behind stays behind. What's left behind has nothing to stare at but his back In the winter of 1965, Yonaton Lifshitz decided to leave the kibbutz on which he was born, and his sterile marriage, to start a new life. Page dim. 200 x 130 x 24 Weight: 276 grams

Oz Amos

How to Cure a Fanatic

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2012

The author grew up in war-torn Jerusalem, where as a boy he witnessed first-hand the poisonous consequences of fanaticism. In this book, he brings us face to face with fanaticism he suggests ways in which we can all respond. Page dim. 150 x 106 x 9 Weight: 64 grams

Oz Amos

Between Friends

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2014

Eight interlinked family dramas set on an Israeli kibbutz from the masterful storyteller behind A Tale of Love and Darkness'On the kibbutz it's hard to know. Page dim. 140 x 201 x 13 Weight: 172 grams

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Soumchi

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2016

When Soumchi, an eleven-year-old boy growing up in British-occupied Jerusalem just after World War II, receives a bicycle as a gift from his Uncle, he is overjoyed - even if it is a girl's bicycle. Ignoring the taunts of other boys in his neighborhood, he dreams of riding far away from them, out of the city towards the heart of Africa. Page dim. 198 x 131 x 8 Weight: 86 grams

Oz Amos

Elsewhere, Perhaps

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2016

The Kibbutz of Metsudat Ram lies in the valley of Jordan, close to the border. As the seasons pass, so too do storms of love and passion, conflict and misunderstanding, gossip and scandal - all threatening to tear apart a community held together by necessity and idealism. Page dim. 131 x 197 x 26 Weight: 324 grams

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Judas

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2017

The Israeli master's exceptional final novelSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017 Shmuel - a young, idealistic student - has abandoned his studies in Jerusalem, taking a live-in job as a companion to a cantankerous old man. Page dim. 130 x 197 x 18 Weight: 206 grams

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Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2017

In a village far away, deep in a valley, all the animals and birds disappeared some years ago. Eventually they find themselves in a beautiful garden paradise full of every kind of animal, bird and fish - the home of Nehi the Mountain Demon. Page dim. 132 x 198 x 10 Weight: 124 grams