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Jews and Words by Amos Oz
22.95 AUD
Category: Judaica
Why are words so important to Jews? Novelist Amos Oz and historian Fania Oz-Salzberger roam the gamut of Jewish history to explain the integral relationship of Jews and words. Through a blend of storytelling and scholarship, conversation and argument, father and daughter tell the tales behind Judaism's ...Show more
Jews and Words by Amos Oz & Fania Oz-Salzberger
37.95 AUD
Category: Judaica
Why are words so important to Jews? Novelist Amos Oz and historian Fania Oz-Salzberger roam the gamut of Jewish history to explain the integral relationship of Jews and words. Through a blend of storytelling and scholarship, conversation and argument, father and daughter tell the tales behind Judaism's ...Show more
Judas by Amos Oz
29.99 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
12.95 AUD
Category: Judaica | 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
35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The novel centres around 8 hours in the life of the Author (unnamed), a literary celebrity in his forties, who is in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night to give a reading. Bored, he looks for distraction - and finds copy. On the way he stops at a cafe where he 'bumps into' some of his own characters. In hi ...Show more
Scenes from Village Life by OZ AMOS
19.95 AUD
Category: Judaica
A teenage son shoots himself under his parents' bed. They sleep that night unaware he is lying dead beneath them. A stranger turns up at a man's door to persuade him that they must get rid of his ageing mother in order to sell the house. An old man grumbles to his daughter about the unexplained digging ...Show more
Scenes from Village Life by Amos Oz
34.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Informed by everything, weighed down by nothing, this is an exquisite work of art." --"The Scotsman" Strange things are happening in Tel Ilan, a century-old pioneer village. A disgruntled retired politician complains to his daughter that he hears the sound of digging at night. Could it be their tenant, ...Show more
Soumchi by Amos Oz
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When Soumchi, an eleven-year-old boy growing up in British-occupied Jerusalem just after World War II, receives a bicycle as a gift from his Uncle Zemach, he is overjoyed-even if it is a girl's bicycle. Ignoring the taunts of other boys in his neighborhood, he dreams of riding far away from them, out of ...Show more
Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest by Amos Oz
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In a village far away, deep in a valley, all the animals and birds disappeared some years ago. Only the rebellious young teacher and an old man talk about animals to the children, who have never seen such (mythical) creatures. Otherwise there's a strange silence round the whole subject. One wretched, li ...Show more
The Amos Oz Reader by Amos Oz
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The "Reader "draws on Oz's entire body of work, loosely grouped into four themes: the kibbutz, the city of Jerusalem, the idea of a "promised land," and his own life story. Included are excerpts from his celebrated novels, among them "Where the Jackals Howl, A Perfect Peace, My Michael, Fima, Black Box, ...Show more
The Hill of Evil Counsel by Amos Oz
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Hill of Evil Counsel is a fusion of history and imaginative narrative, re-creating the twilight world of Jerusalem during the fading days of the British Mandate. In these three closely linked stories, Oz vividly evokes the stifling atmosphere of impending crisis as real personalities rub shoulders w ...Show more