Don't Call It Night (Harvest in Translation) - Softcover

Oz, Mr Amos

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156005573 ISBN 13: 9780156005579

Publisher: Mariner Books, 1997

Synopsis

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

"A rich symphony of humanity . . . If Oz's eye for detail is enviable, it is his magnanimity which raises him to the first rank of world authors." --Sunday Telegraph (UK)

At Tel-Kedar, a settlement in the Negev desert, the longtime love affair between Theo, a sixty-year-old civil engineer, and Noa, a young schoolteacher, is slowly disintegrating. When a pupil dies under difficult circumstances, the couple and the entire town are thrown into turmoil. Amos Oz explores with brilliant insight the possibilities--and limits--of love and tolerance.

"Vivid, convincing, and haunting." --New York Times Book Review

About this title

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0156005573
• ISBN 13: 9780156005579
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208