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A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
$49.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Tragic, comic and incomparable: an autobiographical epic and a comedie humaine for our times, which is both the portrait of an artist and the story of the birth of a nation, spanning several generations and moving with them from Russia, Lithuania, the Ukraine, to Jerusalem. Love and darkness are just ...Show more
A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Love and darkness are just two of the many forces which run through Amos Oz's extraordinary, moving autobiographical novel. He takes us on a bold, courageous journey through his childhood and adolescence, and into the infernal marriage of two kind, well-meaning people- his parents. At the tragic heart o ...Show more
Between Friends by Amos Oz
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'On the kibbutz it's hard to know. We're all supposed to be friends but very few really are.' Amos Oz's compelling new fiction offers revelatory glimpses into the secrets and frustrations of the human heart, played out by a community of misfits united by political disagreement, intense dissatisfaction a ...Show more
Between Friends by Amos Oz
$29.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
'On the kibbutz it's hard to know. We're all supposed to be friends but very few really are.' Amos Oz's compelling new fiction offers revelatory glimpses into the secrets and frustrations of the human heart, played out by a community of misfits united by political disagreement, intense dissatisfaction a ...Show more
Black Box by Amos Oz
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A tragicomic blend of politics and personal destiny, this work records in a series of letters the wrecked marriage of Ilana and Alex. Seven years of silence following their bitter divorce is broken when Ilana writes to Alex for help over their wayward and illiterate son, Boaz, and old emotional scars ar ...Show more
Dear Zealots: Letters from a Divided Land by Amos Oz
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
'Concise, evocative... Dear Zealotsis not just a brilliantbook of thoughts and ideas - it is a depiction of the struggle of one man who, for decades, has insisted on keeping a sharp, strident and lucid perspective in the face of chaos and at times of madness' David Grossman, winner of the Man Booker Int ...Show more
How to Cure a Fanatic by Amos Oz
$12.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
In "How To Cure a Fanatic" Amos Oz analyses the historical roots of violence and confronts truths about the extremism nurtured throughout society. By bringing us face to face with fanaticism he suggests ways in which we can all respond. In "Help Us to Divorce" he convinces irrefutably that the Israel-Pa ...Show more
Judas by Amos Oz
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Amos Oz's first major novel in a decade - since A Tale of Love and Darkness, which sold over 100,000 copies. It is 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 ...Show more
Judas by Amos Oz; Nicholas De Lange Lange (Translator); Nicholas De Lange (Translator)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
SHORTLISTED 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 2 million copies worldwide Shmuel - a young, idealistic student - has abandoned his studies in Jerusalem, taking a live-in job as a companion to a cantan ...Show more
My Michael by Amos Oz
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This title is presented with a new introduction from the author. ""My Michael" is a beautiful work of great depth and lingers in the mind as a lyric song to his country's people as much as a moving love story". (Arthur Miller). It's 1950s Jerusalem. Hannah Gonen has just married and is thrilled and pain ...Show more
Rhyming Life and Death by Amos Oz
$21.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
An unnamed author waits in a bar in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night. He is there to give a reading of his work but as he sits, bored, he begins to conjure up the life stories of the people he meets, not least Ricky, an equally bored but seductive waitress. Later, when the reading is underway, he weaves ...Show more