Amos Oz
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Amos Oz (1939–2018) was a world-renowned novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. His many books include A Tale of Love and Darkness, Scenes from Village Life, and How to Cure a Fanatic (Princeton). Shira Hadad is an acclaimed editor of contemporary Israeli fiction and a screenwriter. She edited works by such writers as Amos Oz and Zeruya Shalev, and created TV dramas for various networks. Jessica Cohen is the translator of Amos Oz's Dear Zealots...
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In Between Friends, Amos Oz returns to the kibbutz of the late 1950s, the time and place where his writing began. These eight interconnected stories, set in the fictitious Kibbutz Yekhat, draw masterly profiles of idealistic men and women enduring personal hardships in the shadow of one of the greatest collective dreams of the twentieth century. A devoted father who fails to challenge his daughter's lover, an old friend, a man his own age; an elderly...
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In a gray and gloomy village, all of the animals-from dogs and cats to fish and snails-disappeared years before. No one talks about it and no one knows why, though everyone agrees that the village has been cursed. But when, two children see a fish-a tiny one and just for a second-they become determined to unravel the mystery of where the animals have gone. And so, they travel into the depths of the forest with that mission in mind, terrified and hopeful...
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"Diese Geschichten erzählen von den elementaren Kräften menschlicher Existenz. Von Einsamkeit. Von Liebe. Von Verlust. Von Tod. Von Sehnsucht. Von Verzicht und Verlangen." Amos Oz
In seinem neuen Buch kehrt Amos Oz zu der Zeit zurück, die ihn am meisten inspiriert hat: seine Kibbuz-Jahre. Im fiktiven Kibbuz Ikhat zeichnen die Erzählungen Porträts von Frauen und Männern, die ihren ganz eigenen Träumen und ihrem eigenen Schmerz nachhängen,...
5) The Same Sea
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The Same Sea is Amos Oz's most adventurous and inventive book, a novel of lyrical beauty and narrative power and the book by which he would like to be remembered. We meet the middle-aged Albert; his wife, whom he has lost to cancer; his prodigal son, who wanders the mountains of Tibet hoping to find himself; and his son's enticing young girlfriend, with whom Albert becomes infatuated and who in turn sleeps with her boyfriend's close friend. In this...
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"From the incomparable Amos Oz comes a series of three essays: on the universal nature of fanaticism and its possible cures, on the Jewish roots of humanism and the need for a secular pride in Israel, and on the geopolitical standing of Israel in the wider Middle East and internationally. Dear Zealots is classic Amos Oz-fluid, rich, masterly, and perfectly timed for a world in which polarization and extremism are rising everywhere."--Amazon.com.
8) Judas
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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2016.
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305 pages ; 22 cm
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"Winner of the International Literature Prize, the new novel by Amos Oz is his first full-length work since the best-selling A Tale of Love and Darkness. Jerusalem, 1959. Shmuel Ash, a biblical scholar, is adrift in his young life when he finds work as a caregiver for a brilliant but cantankerous old man named Gershom Wald. There is, however, a third, mysterious presence in his new home. Atalia Abarbanel, the daughter of a deceased Zionist leader,...
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
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[2017]
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1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Based on the international best seller by Amos Oz, the story of his youth, set against the backdrop of the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. The film details the young man's relationship with his mother and his beginnings as a writer, while looking at what happens when the stories told, become the stories lived.