In the last years of British rule in Jerusalem, a lonely, bookish Israeli boy befriends a British soldier in this tale of friendship in the face of enmity. Jerusalem 1947. British soldiers patrol the streets, and bullets and bombs...
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...
Amos Oz’s remarkable, moving story takes us on a seductive journey through his childhood and adolescence, along Jerusalem’s war-torn streets in the 1940s and ’50s and into a small apartment crowded with books in twelve languages and relatives speaking...
Stories cum fiction, this is difficult to define from Israel’s master storyteller….It gives us an unsettling portrait of daily life in Oz’s fictional small Israeli village of Tel Ilan, in the vicinity of Tel Aviv. “”Tel Ilan, a pioneer...
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