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OZ, Amos was born on May 4, 1939 in Jerusalem.
( Three stories in which history and imaginative narrativ...)
Three stories in which history and imaginative narrative intertwine to re-create the world of Jerusalem during the last days of the British Mandate. A book as complex, vivid and uncompromising as Jerusalem itself (The Nation). Translated by Nicholas de Lange in collaboration with the Author. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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( "Thoughtful, self-assured and highly sophisticated, ful...)
"Thoughtful, self-assured and highly sophisticated, full of the most skillful modulations of tone and texture. A modern Israeli Madame Bovary.New York Times Book Review Set in 1950s Jerusalem, My Michael is the story of a remote and intense woman named Hannah Gonen and her marriage to a decent but unremarkable man named Michael. As the years pass and Hannahs tempestuous fantasy life encroaches upon reality, she feels increasingly estranged from him and the marriage gradually disintegrates. Gorgeously written, profoundly moving, this extraordinary novel is at once a haunting love story, and a rich reflective portrait of a place. "A dazzling, very beautiful, splendidly conceived and composed book." New York Review of Books
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("A generous imagination at work. Ozs language, for all o...)
"A generous imagination at work. Ozs language, for all of its sensuous imagery, has a careful and wise simplicity." New York Times Book Review Situated only two miles from a hostile border, Amos Ozs fictional community of Metsudat Ram is a microcosm of the Israeli frontier kibbutz. There, held together by necessity and menace, the kibbutzniks share love and sorrow under the guns of their enemies and the eyes of history. "Immensely enjoyable." Chicago Tribune Book World
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( Brilliant and insistent . . . The prose is sharp as a ...)
Brilliant and insistent . . . The prose is sharp as a cameo, simple yet compelling, smoky, precise, lustrous, eerie. Boston Sunday Globe Here Amos Oz captures the atmosphere of hatred in which Jews have lived, died, and struggled for understanding. In Crusade, a band of soldiers journeys toward the Holy Land, killing any Jews they encounter; but soon the Crusaders face their own reckoning, as disease and deprivation take their toll. Late Love portrays an aged lecturer in modern Israel with paranoid visions of the destruction of his people at the hands of the Soviets. He is out of touch with a younger and saner generation, but knows they must be warned. Powerfully written, with subtlety and flagrance delicately balanced. Austin American-Statesman
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( The haunting poetry of Ozs prose and the stunning logi...)
The haunting poetry of Ozs prose and the stunning logic of his testimony make a potent mixture. Washington Post Book World Amos Oz was one of the first voices of conscience to advocate for a two-state solution. As a founding member of the Peace Now movement, Oz has spent over thirty-five years speaking out on this issue, and these powerful essays and speeches span an important and formative period for understanding todays tension and crises. Whether he is discoursing on the role of writers in society or recalling his grandmothers death in the context of the languages veracity; examining the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a tragicomedy or questioning the Zionist dream, Oz remains trenchant and unflinching in this moving portrait of a divided land. Oz is the modern prophet of Israel. Sunday Telegraph (UK)
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As well as being one of Israels preeminent writers of fiction, Amos Oz was one of the first voices of conscience in Israel to advocate the creation of a Palestinian state and has been a leading figure of the Peace Now movement since 1977. This superb collection of essays offers Ozs cogent views on Israels offensive into Lebanon in 1982; fanaticism of all stripes; the PLO; Israeli terrorism; the new militarism and the growing intolerance toward the Arab population in Israel; Jewish attitudes toward the Holocaust, and its misappropriation by the right and left alike; Claude Lanzmanns film Shoah; the dream of Zionism and its failures; and much more.
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( Ozs strangest, riskiest, and richest novel. Washing...)
Ozs strangest, riskiest, and richest novel. Washington Post Book World Israel, just before the Six-Day War. On a kibbutz, the countrys founders and their children struggle to come to terms with their land and with each other. The messianic father exults in accomplishments that had once been only dreams; the son longs to establish an identity apart from his father; the fragile young wife is out of touch with reality; and the gifted and charismatic outsider seethes with emotion. Through the interplay of these brilliantly realized characters, Oz evokes a drama that is chillingly, strikingly universal. Oz is a peerless, imaginative chronicler of his countrys inner and outer transformations. Independent (UK)
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( An exemplary instance of a writer using his craft to c...)
An exemplary instance of a writer using his craft to come to grips with what is happening politically and to illuminate certain aspects of Israeli society that have generally been concealed by polemical formulas. The New York Times Notebook in hand, Amos Oz traveled throughout Israel and the West Bank in the early 1980s to talk with workers, soldiers, religious zealots, aging pioneers, new immigrants, desperate Arabs, and visionaries, asking them questions about Israels past, present, and future. What he heard is set down here in those distinctive voices, alongside Ozs observations and reflections. A classic insiders view of a land whose complex past and troubled present make for an uncertain future. Ozs vignettes . . . wondrously re-create whole worlds with an economy of words. Philadelphia Inquirer
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( Amos Oz's first bookbeautifully repackagedis a distur...)
Amos Oz's first bookbeautifully repackagedis a disturbing and moving collection of short stories about kibbutz life. Each of the eight stories in this volume grips the reader from the first line. Each conveys the tension and intensity of feeling in the founding period of Israel, a brand-new state with an age-old history. Some are love stories, more are hate stories, and frequently the two urges intertwine.
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(This collection published here in English for the first...)
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 littérateur. 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.
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("A profusion of delightful passages couched in unfailingl...)
"A profusion of delightful passages couched in unfailingly lovely language." — New York Times Book Review 1939. As the Nazis advance into Poland, a Jewish mathematician and watchmaker named Pomeranz escapes into the wintry forest, leaving behind his beautiful, intelligent wife, Stefa. After the war, having evaded the concentration camps, they begin to build new lives, Stefa in Stalin’s Russia and Pomeranz in Israel, where, as they move toward reunion, another war is brewing. An intricate tale of people seeking escape from a hostile world in thrillingly fantastical ways. "Lyrical . . . Its youthfulness and energy are exhilarating." — The New Yorker
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OZ, Amos was born on May 4, 1939 in Jerusalem.
Hebrew University Jerusalem.
Teacher of literature and philosophy, Hulda High School and Giva"c Brenner Regional High School 1963-1986. Visiting Fellow, Saint Cross College Oxford. Writer-in-residence Hebrew University Jerusalem 1975.
Visiting Professor University of Calif, at Los Angeles (Berkeley).
Writer-in-residence, and Professor, of Literature Colorado College, Colorado Springs 1984-1985. Professor, of Hebrew Literature, Ben Gurion University 1987-1988.
Visiting Professor, of Literature, Writer in Residence, Boston University 1987.
( As well as being one of Israels preeminent writers of ...)
( An exemplary instance of a writer using his craft to c...)
(This collection published here in English for the first...)
( Three stories in which history and imaginative narrativ...)
( Amos Oz's first bookbeautifully repackagedis a distur...)
( "Thoughtful, self-assured and highly sophisticated, ful...)
( The haunting poetry of Ozs prose and the stunning logi...)
("A profusion of delightful passages couched in unfailingl...)
( Ozs strangest, riskiest, and richest novel. Washing...)
("A generous imagination at work. Ozs language, for all o...)
( Brilliant and insistent . . . The prose is sharp as a ...)
Married Nily Zuckermann in 1960.
professor of literature