Amos Oz
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"Scenes from Village Life is like a symphony, its movements more impressive together than in isolation. There is, in each story, a particular chord or strain; but taken together, these chords rise and reverberate, evoking an unease so strong it's almost a taste in the mouth . . . Scenes from Village Life is a brief collection, but its brevity is a testament to its force. You will not soon forget it."—New York Times Book Review
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Amos Oz (1939–2018) was a world-renowned novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. His many books include A Tale of Love and Darkness, Scenes from Village Life, and How to Cure a Fanatic (Princeton). Shira Hadad is an acclaimed editor of contemporary Israeli fiction and a screenwriter. She edited works by such writers as Amos Oz and Zeruya Shalev, and created TV dramas for various networks. Jessica Cohen is the translator of Amos Oz's Dear Zealots...
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The celebrated author and peace activist addresses the war in Lebanon and the deep political divides within Israel in these articles and essays.
As well as being one of Israel's preeminent writers of fiction, Amos Oz was one of the first Israeli voices of conscience to advocate the creation of a Palestinian state. Through his forcefully argued speeches, articles and essays, he was a leading figure of the Peace Now movement since 1977. This superb...
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1939. As the Nazis advance into Poland, a Jewish mathematician and watchmaker named Pomeranz escapes into the wintry forest, leaving behind his beautiful, intelligent wife, Stefa. After the war, having evaded the concentration camps, they begin to build new lives, Stefa in Stalin's Russia and Pomeranz in Israel, where, as they move toward reunion, another war is brewing. An intricate tale of people seeking escape from a hostile world in thrillingly...
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Amos Oz was one of the first voices of conscience to advocate for a two-state solution. As a founding member of the Peace Now movement, Oz has spent over thirty-five years speaking out on this issue, and these powerful essays and speeches span an important and formative period for understanding today's tension and crises. Whether he is discoursing on the role of writers in society or recalling his grandmother's death in the context of the language's...
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Situated only two miles from a hostile border, Amos Oz's fictional community of Metsudat Ram is a microcosm of the Israeli frontier kibbutz. There, held together by necessity and menace, the kibbutzniks share love and sorrow under the guns of their enemies and the eyes of history.
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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 fish-a tiny one and just for a second-they become determined to unravel the mystery of where the animals have gone. And so, they travel into the depths of the forest with that mission in mind, terrified and hopeful...
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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.
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A snapshot of Israel and the West Bank in the 1980s, through the voices of its inhabitants, from the National Jewish Book Award–winning author of Judas. Notebook in hand, renowned author and onetime kibbutznik Amos Oz traveled throughout his homeland to talk with people-workers, soldiers, religious zealots, aging pioneers, desperate Arabs, visionaries-asking them questions about Israel's past, present, and future. Observant or secular, rich or...
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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 Zemach, 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 and across the desert, toward the heart of Africa. But first, he wants to show his new prize to his friend Aldo.
In the tradition of such...
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Here, in his first book, 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 feeling in the founding period of Israel, a brand-new state with an age-old history. Some are love stories, more are hate stories, and frequently the two urges intertwine.
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Here Amos Oz captures the atmosphere of hatred in which Jews have lived, died, and struggled for understanding.
In Crusade, a band of soldier’s journeys toward the Holy Land, killing any Jews they encounter, but soon the Crusaders face their own reckoning, as disease and deprivation take their toll.
Late Love portrays an aged lecturer in modern Israel with paranoid visions of the destruction of his people at the hands of the Soviets. He is out...
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La revista Luvina y la Editorial de la Universidad de Guadalajara reúnen estos cien Cuentos de Asia, Europa y América para celebrar el número 100 de Luvina y sus veinticinco años ininterrumpidos de publicación. Son textos representativos de la literatura universal contemporánea que Luvina ha publicado, especialmente en los números dedicados al país invitado de honor de la Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara. Es una muestra formada...
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"Diese Geschichten erzählen von den elementaren Kräften menschlicher Existenz. Von Einsamkeit. Von Liebe. Von Verlust. Von Tod. Von Sehnsucht. Von Verzicht und Verlangen." Amos Oz
In seinem neuen Buch kehrt Amos Oz zu der Zeit zurück, die ihn am meisten inspiriert hat: seine Kibbuz-Jahre. Im fiktiven Kibbuz Ikhat zeichnen die Erzählungen Porträts von Frauen und Männern, die ihren ganz eigenen Träumen und ihrem eigenen Schmerz nachhängen,...
16) Judas
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Im Winter 1959/60 gibt Shmuel Ash sein Studium auf und zieht in das Haus eines behinderten alten Mannes in Jerusalem als dessen Helfer und Begleiter. Hier begegnet ihm die verführerische, unnahbare Atalja Abrabanel. Neugier und Lust packen ihn, aber sie warnt ihn, sich in sie zu verlieben.
Nach und nach gelingt es ihm, ihr Geheimnis zu enthüllen, das sie mit Gershom Wald, dem schroffen alten Mann, teilt, das die beiden auf unheilsame Weise eng miteinander...
17) Censored Voices
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In June 1967, with armies from Egypt, Jordan and Syria amassed on its borders, Israel launched a pre-emptive strike and achieved a stunning victory in just six days, tripling its size and leading to the birth of modern Israel. As the nation brimmed with relief and pride, a narrative of manifest destiny quickly emerged. But lost in the euphoria were voices that expressed a more conflicted reality. Unearthing previously censored audio recordings with...
18) Judas
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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. 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 Abarbanel, the daughter of a deceased Zionist leader,...
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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. The story of an adolescent whose life changes forever with his mother's suicide. The story of a man who leaves the constraints of his family to join a kibbutz, change his name,...
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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 the Negev desert, the longtime love affair between Theo, a sixty-year-old civil engineer, and Noa, a young schoolteacher, is slowly disintegrating. When a pupil...
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
At Tel-Kedar, a settlement in the Negev desert, the longtime love affair between Theo, a sixty-year-old civil engineer, and Noa, a young schoolteacher, is slowly disintegrating. When a pupil...