Judas (Paperback)

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017 Amos Oz's first major novel in a decade - since A Tale of Love and Darkness, which sold over 100,000 copies Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the Times Literary Supplement Shmuel, a young, idealistic student, is drawn to a mysterious handwritten note on a campus noticeboard. This takes him to a strange house, where an elderly invalid man requires a paid companion, to argue with and read to him. But there is someone else in the house, too... A woman, who is trailed by ghosts from her past. Shmuel is captivated by her, a sexual obsession which evolves into gentle love and devotion; and he is pulled to the old man, an intellectual obsession which also evolves into gentle love and devotion. Shmuel begins to uncover the house's tangled history and, in doing so, reaches an understanding that harks back not only to the beginning of the Jewish-Arab conflict, but also the beginning of Jerusalem itself - to Christianity, to Judaism, to Judas. Set in the still-divided Jerusalem of 1959-60, Judas is an exquisite love story and coming-of-age tale, and a radical rethinking of the concept of treason. It is a novel steeped in desire and curiosity from one of Israel's greatest living writers.

General

Imprint:	Chatto and Windus
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2016
Authors:	Amos Oz
Translators:	Nicholas De Lange
Dimensions:	234 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	274
ISBN-13:	978-1-78474-051-1
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	Hebrew
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Promotions
LSN:	1-78474-051-9
Barcode:	9781784740511

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