Between Friends (Paperback)

Winner, National Jewish Book Award
" A] gorgeous, rueful collection . . . that lays bare the deepest human longings." --" Chicago Tribune"
In "Between Friends," Amos Oz returns to the kibbutz of the late 1950s, the time and place where his writing began. These eight interconnected stories, set in the fictitious Kibbutz Yekhat, draw masterly profiles of idealistic men and women enduring personal hardships in the shadow of one of the greatest collective dreams of the twentieth century. A devoted father who fails to challenge his daughter's lover, an old friend, a man his own age; an elderly gardener who carries on his shoulders the sorrows of the world; a woman writing perversely poignant letters to her husband's mistress. Each of these stories is a luminous human and literary study; together they offer an eloquent portrait of an idea, and of a charged and fascinating epoch. Amos Oz at home. And at his best.
"Lucid and heartbreaking." -- "Guardian" (UK)
"All Israeli life is here, rendered in loving detail." -- "Mail on Sunday" (UK)

General

Imprint:	Harpervia
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2014
First published:	July 2014
Authors:	Amos Oz
Dimensions:	203 x 135 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-0-544-22774-3
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories
LSN:	0-544-22774-3
Barcode:	9780544227743

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