The assurance of a master... diverse and ironical

Guardian

Evocative and penetrating... Oz handles his narrative with great agility

Sunday Times

A peerless imaginative chronicler of his country's inner and outer transformations

Independent

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An exquisite thinker... Oz is a rare blast of sanity and intelligence

Observer

Amos Oz's most powerful work

New York Times

'Evocative and penetrating. Oz handles his narrative with great agility’ Sunday TimesOne day a man may just pick up and walk out. What he leaves behind stays behind. What's left behind has nothing to stare at but his back In the winter of 1965, Yonaton Lifshitz decided to leave the kibbutz on which he was born, and his sterile marriage, to start a new life. But as he engineers his escape, the arrival of Azariah Gitlin, a keen new recruit, brings about a painful reconciliation of their different destinies in a society struggling with changing realities.
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What he leaves behind stays behind. What's left behind has nothing to stare at but his back In the winter of 1965, Yonaton Lifshitz decided to leave the kibbutz on which he was born, and his sterile marriage, to start a new life.
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The assurance of a master... diverse and ironical
'Prophetic... a novelist of stature and wisdom' - Daily Telegraph

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780099265818
Publisert
1993-05-20
Utgiver
Vendor
Vintage
Vekt
267 gr
Høyde
199 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
384

Forfatter

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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.