A Tale of Love and Darkness: Amos Oz - Softcover

Oz, Amos

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099450038 ISBN 13: 9780099450030

Publisher: Vintage, 2005

Synopsis

Discover Amos Oz’s most iconic work in this extraordinary memoir that is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation

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‘A hero of mine, a moral as well as literary giant’ Simon Schama

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 nearly as many. Caught between them is one small boy with the weight of generations on his shoulders.

Oz dives into 120 years of family history and paradox, the saga of a Jewish love-hate affair with Europe that sweeps from Vilna and Odessa, via Poland and Prague, to Israel. Farce and heartbreak, history and humanity make up this story of clashing cultures and lives, of suffering and perseverance, of love and darkness.

‘Oz’s greatest work...not only his autobiography, but in a way the biography of Israel before it was created’ David Grossman, Observer

About this title

Review:

"One of the funniest, most tragic and most touching books I have ever read. A testament to a family, a time and a place." (Guardian)

"A masterpiece" (Irish Times)

"One of the most gripping, intense and moving autobiographies I have ever read." (Independent on Sunday)

"It sweeps across 120 years of family history, weaving a tragi-comic saga of love and books, of Jewish life and immigrant life the world over, and of the universal madness of families. Read it now - I promise you won't read a more brilliant book in a long, long while." (Daily Mail)

"If you have 18 euros in your pocket and at least two days left to live, then you should do one more thing to die without regrets, and that is to read this book." (La Republica)

From the Publisher:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0099450038
• ISBN 13: 9780099450030
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528