Set in a small Israeli settlement in the desert during the summer of 1989--a town full of eccentric characters--a novel follows the difficult romance between a sixty-year-old engineer and a schoolteacher fifteen years his junior.
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Review:
"Oz's sense of place brings Faulkner to mind. His quest for ideals is Tolstoyan, his hapless, decaying characters evoke thoughts of Bellow, but their intensity of feeling, their obsession with elementary issues is Dostoevskian" (Sunday Telegraph)
"A commanding artist who ranks with the most important writers of our time" (Cynthia Ozick)
"Oz has imposed order on a literary landscape that, at least to his overseas readers, seethes with conflict" (Guardian)
"An elegiac, exquisite portrait of a middle-aged love affair" (Independent)
Book Description:
'Vivid, convincing and haunting' New York Times
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- PublisherHarcourt
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0151001529
- ISBN 13 9780151001521
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages199
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