To Know a Woman(1st Edition) (Harvest in Translation) by Mr AmosOz, Nicholas De Lange, AmosOz Paperback, 262 Pages, Published 1992 by Harvest Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-15-690680-7, ISBN: 0-15-690680-5
"A New York Times Notable Book of the Year “[To Know a Woman has] the powerful undertow of myth . . . A rich and affecting novel.” — New York Times Following the accidental death of his wife, Israeli secret service agent Yoel Ravid retires to the suburbs with his daughter, mother, and mother-in-law. After a lifetime of uncovering other people’s secrets, he is forced to look back on his own: the desolate enigma of his wife’s life and ..."
Judas(Reprint) by AmosOz, Nicholas De Lange Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2017 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-1-328-74549-1, ISBN: 1-328-74549-X
"International Bestseller Winner of the International Literature Prize Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize A New York Times Editors’ Choice “[A] magnificent novel . . . Oz pitches the book’s heartbreak and humanism perfectly from first page to last.” — New York Times Book Review “Scintillating . . . An old-fashioned novel of ideas that is strikingly and compellingly modern.” — Observer Jerusalem, 1959. Shmuel Ash, a ..."
Dear Zealots(Reprint) Letters from a Divided Land by AmosOz, Jessica Cohen Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2019 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-0-358-17544-5, ISBN: 0-358-17544-5
"An urgent and deeply necessary work, Dear Zealots offers three powerful essays that speak directly to our present age, on the rise of zealotry in Israel and around the world. “Concise, evocative . . . Dear Zealots is not just a brilliant book of thoughts and ideas—it is a depiction of one man’s struggle, who for decades has insisted on keeping a sharp, strident and lucid perspective in the face of chaos and at times of madness.” — David ..."
Jews and Words(Reprint) (Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization) by AmosOz, Fania Oz-Salzberger Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 2014 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-20584-8, ISBN: 0-300-20584-8
"A celebrated novelist and an acclaimed historian of ideas, father and daughter, unravel the chain of words at the core of Jewish life, history, and culture Why are words so important to so many Jews? Novelist Amos Oz and historian Fania Oz-Salzberger roam the gamut of Jewish history to explain the integral relationship of Jews and words. Through a blend of storytelling and scholarship, conversation and argument, father and daughter tell ..."
How to Cure a Fanatic(Reprint) by AmosOz Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 2010 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-14863-2, ISBN: 0-691-14863-5
"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 fanaticism and proposes a reasoned and respectful approach to resolving the Israeli Palestinian conflict. As an added feature, he comments on contemporary issues--the Gaza pullout, Y ..."
The Same Sea(1st Edition) by AmosOz, Nicholas De Lange Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2001 by Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-15-100572-7, ISBN: 0-15-100572-9
"From the internationally acclaimed Israeli author, a unique novel in verse that will take its place among the great books of our time. The Same Sea is Amos Oz's most adventurous and inventive novel, the book by which he would like to be remembered. This is Oz free of convention--literary and otherwise. Prose leads to poetry, poetry to prose. The cast of characters ranges from a prodigal son to a widowed father who has taken in his son's ..."
"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 ..."
"“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 visio ..."
Judas(1st Edition) by AmosOz, Nicholas De Lange Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2017 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-78470-195-6, ISBN: 1-78470-195-5
"International Bestseller Winner of the International Literature Prize Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize A New York Times Editors’ Choice “[A] magnificent novel . . . Oz pitches the book’s heartbreak and humanism perfectly from first page to last.” — New York Times Book Review “Scintillating . . . An old-fashioned novel of ideas that is strikingly and compellingly modern.” — Observer Jerusalem, 1959. Shmuel Ash, a ..."
"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 the Bible, he is accused of treason by his friends and learns the true nature of loyalty and betrayal. Translated by Nicholas de Lange."
"‘On the kibbutz it’s hard to know. We’re all supposed to be friends but very few really are’Ariella, unhappy in love, confides in the woman whose husband she stole.Nahum, a devoted father, can’t find the words to challenge his daughter’s promiscuous lover.The old idealists deplore the apathy of the young, while the young are so used to kibbutz life that they can’t work out if they’re impassioned or indifferent. And amid this group of pe ..."
Unto Death(Updated) by AmosOz, Nicholas De Lange Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2005 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-09-981870-0, ISBN: 0-09-981870-1
Under this Blazing Light(Updated) (Canto original series) by AmosOz, Nicholas De Lange Paperback, 220 Pages, Published 1996 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-57622-2, ISBN: 0-521-57622-9
""Perhaps most of the essays in this book are substitutes for stories that I have not managed to write," says Amos Oz in the preface to Under This Blazing Light. Published for the first time in English, this collection of essays reveals the personal and political thoughts of Israel's most celebrated novelist. The essays in this volume put a unique perspective on the author's own experiences and development, and reveal a complex and deepl ..."
A Perfect Peace(1st Edition) by AmosOz, Halkin Hillel Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 1993 by Harvest Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-15-671683-3, ISBN: 0-15-671683-6
"This tale of a conflicted family living on a kibbutz in Israel just before the Six-Day War is “Oz's strangest, riskiest, and richest novel.” —The Washington Post Book World On a kibbutz, the country’s founders and their children struggle to come to terms with their land and with each other. The messianic father exults in accomplishments that had once been only dreams; the son longs to establish an identity apart from his father; the f ..."
My Michael(1st Edition) by Mr AmosOz, Nicholas De Lange Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 2005 by Mariner Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-15-603160-8, ISBN: 0-15-603160-4
"Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: November 2005 Pages: 264 Publisher: Mariner Books One of Amos Oz's Earliest and MOST Famous novels My Michael created a Sensation upon its INITIAL PUBLICATION AS a writer of international Acclaim in 1968 and ESTABLISHED Oz. Like all great books. it has an enduring power to surprise and mesmerize. Set in 1950s Jerusalem. My Michael tells the story of a remote and intense woman named Hannah Gonen and ..."
Unto Death(1st Edition) Crusade and Late Love (2 Novellas) by Mr AmosOz, Nicholas De Lange Paperback, 180 Pages, Published 1978 by Houghton Mifflin Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-15-693170-0, ISBN: 0-15-693170-2
"“Brilliant and insistent . . . The prose is sharp as a cameo, simple yet compelling, smoky, precise, lustrous, eerie.” — Boston Sunday GlobeHere Amos Oz captures the atmosphere of hatred in which Jews have lived, died, and struggled for understanding. In Crusade, a band of soldiers journeys toward the Holy Land, killing any Jews they encounter; but soon the Crusaders face their own reckoning, as disease and deprivation take their tol ..."
Dear Zealots Letters from a Divided Land by AmosOz, Jessica Cohen Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2018 by Chatto & Windus ISBN-13: 978-1-78474-238-6, ISBN: 1-78474-238-4
"'Concise, evocative... Dear Zealots is not just a brilliant book of thoughts and ideas – it is a depiction of the struggle of one man who, for decades, has insisted on keeping a sharp, strident and lucid perspective in the face of chaos and at times of madness' David Grossman, winner of the Man Booker International Prize This essential collection of three new essays was written out of a sense of urgency, concern, and a belief that a bet ..."
Dear Zealots Letters from a Divided Land by AmosOz, Jessica Cohen Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-1-328-98700-6, ISBN: 1-328-98700-0
"An urgent and deeply necessary work, Dear Zealots offers three powerful essays that speak directly to our present age, on the rise of zealotry in Israel and around the world. “Concise, evocative . . . Dear Zealots is not just a brilliant book of thoughts and ideas—it is a depiction of one man’s struggle, who for decades has insisted on keeping a sharp, strident and lucid perspective in the face of chaos and at times of madness.” — David ..."
Scenes From Village Life (Hardback) by AmosOz Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2011 by Chatto & Windus ISBN-13: 978-0-7011-8550-3, ISBN: 0-7011-8550-3
"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, a ..."