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Revelatory talks about art and life with internationally acclaimed
Israeli novelist Amos Oz In the last years of his life, the writer
Amos Oz talked regularly with Shira Hadad, who worked closely with
him as the editor of his final novel, Judas. These candid,
uninhibited dialogues show a side of Oz that few ever saw. What
Makes an Apple? presents the most revealing of these conversations
in English for the first time, painting an illuminating and
disarmingly intimate portrait of a towering literary figure. In
frank and open exchanges that are by turns buoyant, introspective,
and argumentative, Oz explains what impels him to begin a story and
shares his routines, habits, and challenges as a writer. He
discusses the tectonic changes he experienced in his lifetime in
relationships between women and men, and describes how his erotic
coming of age shaped him not only as a man but also as an author.
Oz reflects on his parents, his formative years on a kibbutz, and
how he dealt with and learned from his critics, his students, and
his fame. He talks about why there is more humor in his later books
and gives his exceptional take on fear of death. Resonating with
Oz's clear, honest, and humorous voice, What Makes an Apple? offers
unique insights about Oz's artistic and personal evolution, and
enables readers to explore his work in new ways.
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Judas (Paperback)
Amos Oz
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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 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 Abravanel, the
daughter of a deceased Zionist leader, a beautiful woman in her
forties, entrances young Shmuel even as she keeps him at a
distance. Piece by piece, the old Jerusalem stone house, haunted by
tragic history and now home to the three misfits and their
intricate relationship, reveals its secrets. At once an exquisite
love story and a coming-of-age novel, an allegory for the state of
Israel and for the biblical tale from which it draws its title,
Judas is Amos Oz's most powerful novel in decades. "Oz has written
one of the most triumphant novels of his career." -- Forward "A
[big] beautiful novel . . . Funny, wise, and provoking." -- Times
(UK)
Winner of the National Jewish Book AwardInternational 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 small apartment
crowded with books in twelve languages and relatives speaking
nearly as many. The story of an adolescent whose life has been
changed forever by his mother's suicide. The story of a man who
leaves the constraints of his family and community to join a
kibbutz, change his name, marry, have children. The story of a
writer who becomes an active participant in the political life of
his nation. "One of the most enchanting and deeply satisfying books
that I have read in many years." -- "New Republic"
Winner of the National Jewish Book AwardInternational 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 small apartment
crowded with books in twelve languages and relatives speaking
nearly as many. The story of an adolescent whose life has been
changed forever by his mother's suicide. The story of a man who
leaves the constraints of his family and community to join a
kibbutz, change his name, marry, have children. The story of a
writer who becomes an active participant in the political life of
his nation. "One of the most enchanting and deeply satisfying books
that I have read in many years." -- "New Republic"
This collection - published here in English for the first time -
brings together a number of political, personal, and literary
pieces by Israel's most celebrated modern novelist. Lively,
questioning, and undogmatic, the author's compelling literary
insights make for consistently stimulating reading, while his
perceptive commentary on Israel's political and cultural situation
seems more relevant then ever in the light of current developments
in the Middle East. Topics covered include: an examination of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a dispute between 'right and
right'; reflections on the character of Zionism, on the concept of
'homeland', and on the nature of the kibbutz; the meaning of
socialism in the Israeli context; and portraits of several Jewish
writers and thinkers whose ideas and themes have proved influential
or determinative for Amos Oz himself. These essays, which put a
unique perspective on the author's own experiences and development,
reveal a complex and humane figure of practical political influence
as well as of significant literary stature. Their refreshing blend
of scepticism and idealism are sure to win for Oz new readers,
while delighting those already familiar with his writings, who will
recognise here the many qualities which have generated
international critical acclaim.
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 the tales
behind Judaism's most enduring names, adages, disputes, texts, and
quips. These words, they argue, compose the chain connecting
Abraham with the Jews of every subsequent generation. Framing the
discussion within such topics as continuity, women, timelessness,
and individualism, Oz and Oz-Salzberger deftly engage Jewish
personalities across the ages, from the unnamed, possibly female
author of the Song of Songs through obscure Talmudists to
contemporary writers. They suggest that Jewish continuity, even
Jewish uniqueness, depends not on central places, monuments, heroic
personalities, or rituals but rather on written words and an
ongoing debate between the generations. Full of learning, lyricism,
and humor, Jews and Words offers an extraordinary tour of the words
at the heart of Jewish culture and extends a hand to the reader,
any reader, to join the conversation.
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Judas (Paperback)
Amos Oz; Translated by Nicholas De Lange
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The Israeli master's exceptional final novel SHORTLISTED FOR THE
MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017 Shmuel - a young, idealistic
student - has abandoned his studies in Jerusalem, taking a live-in
job as a companion to a cantankerous old man. But Shmuel quickly
becomes obsessed with the taciturn Atalia, a woman of enchanting
beauty, who also lives in the house. As the household's tangled,
tragic past becomes apparent, so too does story behind the birth of
the state of Israel. Journeying back into the deep past, Judas is a
love story like no other by a master storyteller at the height of
his powers. 'A hero of mine, a moral as well as literary giant'
Simon Schama 'One of his boldest works of all' Boyd Tonkin,
Financial Times 'Amos Oz...brought so much beauty, so much love,
and a vision of peace to our lives. Please hold him in your hearts
and read his books' Natalie Portman Judas is the first novel
selected for the Amos Oz reading circle established by Natalie
Portman.
This collection - published here in English for the first time -
brings together a number of political, personal and literary pieces
by Israel's most celebrated novelist and litterateur. Topics
covered include: an examination of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
as a dispute between 'right and right'; reflections on the
character of Zionism, on the concept of 'homeland', and on the
nature of the kibbutz; the meaning of socialism in the Israeli
context; and portraits of several Jewish writers and thinkers whose
ideas and themes in one way or another have proved influential or
determinative for Amos Oz himself. These essays, which put a unique
perspective on the author's own experiences and development, reveal
a complex and humane figure of practical political influence as
well as of significant literary stature. They will win for Oz new
readers, while delighting those who will recognise here the
qualities evident in his other writings.
Set in the summer of 1947, this is a funny, touching, semi-autobiographical rites-of-passage novel about a lonely boy (nicknamed Profi, short for professor, because he is a bookish, serious kid) growing up in Jerusalem in the last years of British rule. From underground resistance, he is drawn into friendship with the enemy - a British soldier - to whom he gives Hebrew lessons in return for English instruction.
Tragic, comic and incomparable: an autobiographical epic and a
comedie humaine for our times, which is both the portrait of an
artist and the story of the birth of a nation, spanning several
generations and moving with them from Russia, Lithuania, the
Ukraine, to Jerusalem. Love and darkness are just two of the
powerful forces that run through Amos Oz's extraordinary, moving
story. He takes us on a seductive journey through his childhood and
adolescence, along Jerusalem's wartorn streets in the 1940s and
'50s, and into the infernal marriage of two kind, well-meaning
people: his fussy, logical father, and his dreamy, romantic mother.
Caught between them is one small boy with the weight of generations
on his shoulders. And at the tragic heart of the story is the
suicide of his mother, when Amos was twelve-and-a-half years old.
Oz's story dives into 120 year of family history and paradox, the
saga of a Jewish love-hate affair with Europe that sweeps from
Vilna and Odessa, via Poland and Prague, to Israel. Farce and
heartbreak, history and humanity make up this magical portrait of
the artist who saw the birth of a nation, and came through its
turbulent life as well as his own. over.
In a village far away, deep in a valley, all the animals and birds
disappeared some years ago. Only the rebellious young teacher and
an old man talk about animals to the children, who have never seen
such (mythical) creatures. Otherwise there's a strange silence
round the whole subject. One wretched, little boy has dreams of
animals, begins to whoop like an owl, is regarded as an outcast,
and eventually disappears. A stubborn, brave girl called Maya and
her friend Matti, are drawn to explore in the woods round the
village. They know there are dangers beyond and that at night, Nehi
the Mountain Demon comes down to the village. In a far-off cave,
they come upon the vanished boy, content and self-sufficient.
Eventually they find themselves in a beautiful garden paradise full
of every kind of animal, bird and fish - the home of Nehi the
Mountain Demon. The Demon is a pied piper figure who stole the
animals from the village. He, too, was once a boy there, but he was
different, mocked and reviled, treated as an outsider and outcast.
This is his terrible revenge, one which has punished him too, by
removing him from society and friendship, and every few years he
draws another child or two to join him in his fortress Eden, where
he has trained the sheep to lie down with the wolves, and where
predators are few. He lets the two children return to the village,
telling them that one day, when people are less cruel and his
desire for vengeance has crumbled, perhaps the animals might come
back...
'A hero of mine, a moral as well as literary giant' Simon Schama
Amos Oz, the internationally acclaimed author of A Tale of Love and
Darkness and Judas, grew up in war-torn Jerusalem, where as a boy
he witnessed first-hand the poisonous consequences of fanaticism.
In How To Cure a Fanatic Amos Oz analyses the historical roots of
violence and confronts truths about the extremism nurtured
throughout society. By bringing us face to face with fanaticism he
suggests ways in which we can all respond. From the author of A
Tale of Love and Darkness and Man Booker International Prize
shortlisted Judas. 'He was the conscience of Israel' Roger Cohen,
New York Times
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Judas (Standard format, CD)
Amos Oz; Translated by Nicholas De Lange; Read by 1955- Jonathan Davis
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One of Amos Oz's earliest and most famous novels, My Michael was a
sensation upon its initial publication in 1968 and it has an
enduring power to surprise and mesmerize. 'His characters...ride
the river of history' New Yorker 'A beautiful work of great depth
and lingers in the mind as a lyric song to his country's people as
much as a moving love story' Arthur Miller 1950s Jerusalem. Hannah
Gonen has just married and is thrilled and pained by her young
well-meaning husband, Michael. Haunted by her dreams of two boys
who disappeared from Jerusalem after the establishment of the state
of Israel, Hannah gradually withdraws from her husband into a
private world of fantasy and suppressed desires. This 2015 edition
includes an updated introduction from the author.
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