To Know a Woman - Hardcover

Oz, Amos

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151904995 ISBN 13: 9780151904990

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1991

Synopsis

Yoel Ravid devoted many years to the Israeli secret service, his uncanny instinct and ability to sense the truth making him an invaluable agent. Now widowed and retired, Yoel lives in a house in a Tel Aviv suburb with his mother, his mother-in-law, his daughter, and the haunting memory of his wife. Selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Translated by Nicholas de Lange. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.

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Review

"Mr. Oz demonstrates his usual fluency as a writer. His portraits of Yoel, his mother, his mother-in-law and his daughter are, at once, humorous, melancholy and touching." (Michiko Kakutani New York Times)

"This is a book full of hints and echoes, from the past, from literature, from Yoel's former life. It is a remarkable novel, on the one hand a reminder of fiction's capacity to push at the boundaries of the expressible and on the other a meticulous account of one particular character's advance towards wisdom" (Daily Telegraph)

"A writer of extraordinary perception and of a warm humanity, which never slides into sentimentality and never dodges judgement. His dialogue shines with life and he evokes the feel of the physical world, the shimmer of light in the dawn or at evening, wonderfully well. The result is a book, which not only has a firm moral structure, one which poses and explores fundamental questions of human nature and of obligation, but also sparkles with vividly realised renderings of the details of daily life. It is very good indeed" (Scotsman)

Book Description

'There is no novelist writing today who catches the feeling of the moment more surely than Amos Oz' Scotsman

Edition details

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0151904995
• ISBN 13: 9780151904990
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1