Amos Oz

Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, A Tale of Love and Darkness is at once a family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history.

It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and fifties, 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 when he was twelve years old. The story of a man who leaves the constraings of his family and its community of dreamers, scholars, and failed businessmen 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.
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A Tale of Love and Darkness

Judas af den israelske forfatter Amos Oz er en roman om fejltagelser, begær, kærlighed og ikke mindst forræderiets natur. Jerusalem, 1959. Den unge studerende Shmuel er blevet forladt af sin kæreste og er gået i stå i sit speciale, der handler om Judas. En seddel på universitetets opslagstavle fanger hans opmærksomhed og leder ham til et mystisk hus. Her får han arbejde som assistent og samtalepartner hos en invalid intellektuel, som har betalt en høj pris for det, han tror på. Huset rummer også en kvinde – mandens svigerdatter, som er enke og hjemsøgt af spøgelser fra fortiden. Shmuel begynder at afdække husets indviklede historie. Og fascineres af kvinden, selv om han ifølge sine ansættelseskontrakt ikke må forelske sig. Judas var shortlistet til The Man Booker International Prize 2017.

Judas

From internationally bestselling author Oz ("A Tale of Love and Darkness") comes a hauntingly beautiful fable for both children and adults about tolerance, loneliness, denial, and remembrance.

Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest

Brigitta van Rheinberg

Offers personal insight from an author who grew up in war-torn Jerusalem into the nature of fanaticism and provides possible approaches to ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

How to Cure a Fanatic

Examines the lives of a contemporary Israeli couple whose marriage has ended in disaster.

Black Box

Nicholas Robert Michael De Lange

As Hannah Gonen's seemingly happy marriage to Michael gradually breaks down, her secret fears begin to wear on her sanity, in a novel set against the backdrop of 1950s Jerusalem. Reprint.

My Michael

Following the bizarre accidental death of his wife, an Israeli secret agent retires to the suburbs. After a lifetime of uncovering other people's secrets, he is forced to look back at the lies he has told himself. The author's other books include My Michael and The Slopes of Lebanon.

To Know a Woman

Fima

Jeruzalem, de winter van 1959. Sjmoeël Asj besluit zijn studie (en zijn scriptie waarin hij zich vooral zou richten op de rol van de mysterieuze Judas) af te breken. In diezelfde tijd verlaat zijn vriendin hem en blijkt dat zijn ouders hem niet meer financieel kunnen ondersteunen. Sjmoeël heeft er genoeg van en wil Israël verlaten, maar dan ziet hij een advertentie die hem de mogelijkheid geeft om toch te blijven, ook al mag hij niemand vertellen waar hij is.Hij komt terecht in het huis van een oude man, Gersjom Wald. ’s Avonds laat leest Sjmoeël hem voor; ze praten over het zionisme en het conflict tussen de joden en de Arabieren. Ze praten, kortom, over God en de wereld. In het huis van de oude man ontmoet Sjmoeël ook de ondoorgrondelijke Atalja Abarbanel. Direct is hij van zijn stuk gebracht door de schoonheid en ongenaakbaarheid van deze vrouw. Langzaam weet hij het geheim van de relatie tussen Gersjom en Atalja te ontrafelen. In Judas keert Amos Oz terug naar de omgeving van zijn meest succesvolle en geliefde boeken: het Jeruzalem van halverwege de twintigste eeuw. Judas is een verhaal over liefde en volwassen worden, waarin Oz op openhartige en moedige wijze het thema verraad verweeft. Net als in Een verhaal van liefde en duisternis combineert Oz zijn persoonlijke visie op historie en heden van Israël met een meeslepende plot en een schitterende stijl.

The internationally acclaimed Israeli introduces a unique new collection of short stories wherein he is a character who fields angry phone calls from his characters complaining about how they are portrayed in the book. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

The Same Sea

Fania Oz-Salzberger

A novelist father and his historian daughter describe the intricate relationship between Jews and words, backing up their theory that the Jewish experience is not dependent on historical heroes or rituals, but on the written word passed between generations.

Jews and Words

Nicholas De Lange

Rhyming Life and Death

رواية

قصة عن الحب والظلام

LONGLISTED 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.

A series of stories set in the fictional village of Tel Ilan, where citizens live at a crossroads between modernity, war-torn buildings and abandoned farms, a man and his tenant hear mysterious digging sounds under their house at night just before the mayor receives a note from his missing wife, informing him not to worry. 30,000 first printing.

Scenes from Village Life

At the heart of each drama is a desire to be better, more principled and worthy of the community's respect. With his trademark compassion and sharp-eyed wit, Amos Oz leaves us with the feeling that what matters most between friends is the invisible tie of our shared humanity.

Between Friends

Amos Oz, Israel's preeminent writer, once again displays his mastery of human nature as he spins a rich tapestry of character and political intrigue out of the birth of Israel. The year is 1947, the last days of the British mandate in Palestine, and 12-year-old Proffy is accused of treason for his friendship with a kindly British soldier.

Panther in the Basement

Judas / druk 1

With rare wit, intimate knowledge of the human heart, and his usual storytelling mastery, one of Israel's most highly acclaimed writers and the author of A Perfect Peace portrays a man--and a generation--that dreams noble dreams but does nothing. The New York Times hailed Fima as nothing less than "(an) astonishing novel". A Notable Book of the Year.

A distinguished Israeli novelist discusses the experiences and opinions of soldiers, religious leaders, Arabs, and other typical inhabitants of Israel and the West Bank

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