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A Perfect Peace by Amos Oz
34.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Israel, just before the Six-Day War. On a kibbutz, the founders of Israel and their children 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 w ...Show more
A Perfect Peace by Amos Oz
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
One day a man may just pick up and walk out. What he leaves behind stays behind. What's left behind has nothing to stare at but his back.' In the winter of 1965, Yonaton Lifshitz decided to leave the kibbutz on which he was born, and his sterile marriage, to start a new life. But as he engineers his esc ...Show more
A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
37.99 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
A Tale of Love and Darkness (US PB) by Amos Oz
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this bestselling and critically acclaimed work is at once a family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history. It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and ...Show more
Between Friends by Mr Amos Oz
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner, National Jewish Book Award [A] gorgeous, rueful collection . . . that lays bare the deepest human longings. " Chicago Tribune" 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 ficti ...Show more
Between Friends by Amos Oz
26.99 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
Black Box by Mr Amos Oz
31.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Seven years after their divorce, Ilana breaks the bitter silence with a letter to Alex, a world-renowned authority on fanaticism, begging for help with their rebellious adolescent son, Boaz. One letter leads to another, and so evolves a correspondence between Ilana and Alex, Alex and Michel (Ilana s Mor ...Show more
Dear Zealots: Letters from a Divided Land by Amos Oz
29.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
'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
Elsewhere, Perhaps by Amos Oz
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Kibbutz of Metsudat Ram lies in the valley of Jordan, close to the border. Old and young, happy and discontented, the settlers go about their lives as the artillery rumbles in the distance and the war planes shriek overhead. Among them are Reuven, the school teacher whose true calling is poetry, his ...Show more
How to Cure a Fanatic by Amos Oz
17.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
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
In the Land of Israel by Mr Amos Oz
24.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
"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 ...Show more