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Born in Jerusalem in 1939, Amos Oz was the internationally acclaimed author of many novels and essay collections, translated into over forty languages, including his brilliant semi-autobiographical work, A Tale of Love and Darkness. His last novel, Judas, was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017 and won the Yasnaya Polyana Foreign Fiction Award. He received several international awards, including the Prix Femina, the Israel Prize, the Goethe Prize, the Frankfurt Peace Prize and the 2013 Franz Kafka Prize. He died in December 2018.There is no novelist writing today who catches the feeling of the moment more surely than Amos Oz
Scotsman
The book eavesdrops on several days in the life of this Jewish Walter Mitty, a Dostoevskian holy fool minus the faith, with the penchant for casuistic sophistry of Bellow's Herzog
Sunday Telegraph
This might turn out to be the first entry into Israel's "post-war" literary canon
Independent
A warm, enhancing experience
Spectator
A thinking woman's Billy Liar
Observer
An outstanding work... a hilarious and moving portrait
Irish Times