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Books by Amos Oz






To Know a Woman(1st Edition)
(Harvest in Translation)
by Mr Amos Oz, Nicholas De Lange, Amos Oz
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 Amos Oz, 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 Amos Oz, 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 Amos Oz, 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 Amos Oz
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 Amos Oz, 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 ..."






A Tale of Love and Darkness(1st Edition)
by Mr Amos Oz, Nicholas De Lange
Paperback, 560 Pages, Published 2005 by Mariner Books
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-15-603252-0, ISBN: 0-15-603252-X

"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 ..."






In the Land of Israel(1st Edition)
(Harvest in Translation)
by Mr Amos Oz, Maurie Goldberger-Bartura, Amoz Oz, Maurie Goldberg-Bartura
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 1993 by Mariner Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-15-648114-4, ISBN: 0-15-648114-6

"“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 Amos Oz, 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 ..."






Panther in the Basement(1st Edition)
by Amos Oz, Nicholas De Lange
Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 1997 by Harcourt
ISBN-13: 978-0-15-100287-0, ISBN: 0-15-100287-8

"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."






Between Friends. Unter Freunden, englische Ausgabe
by Amos Oz
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2014 by Vintage
Kindle Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-09-958147-5, ISBN: 0-09-958147-7

"‘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 Amos Oz, 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 Amos Oz, 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 Amos Oz, 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 Amos Oz, 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 Amos Oz, 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 Amos Oz, 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 Amos Oz, 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 Amos Oz
Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2011 by Chatto & Windus
ISBN-13: 978-0-7011-8550-3, ISBN: 0-7011-8550-3






How to Cure a Fanatic(1st Edition)
by Amos Oz, Brigitta Van Rheinberg
Hardcover, 104 Pages, Published 2006 by Princeton University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-12669-2, ISBN: 0-691-12669-0

"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 ..."



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