The Hill of Evil Counsel (Harvest Book) - Softcover

Oz, Mr Amos

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156402750 ISBN 13: 9780156402750

Publisher: Mariner Books, 1991

Synopsis

"Sensuous prose and indelible imagery." -- New York Times

Three stories in which history and imagination intertwine to re-create the world of Jerusalem during the last days of the British Mandate. Refugees drawn to Jerusalem in search of safety are confronted by activists relentlessly preparing for an uprising, oblivious to the risks. Meanwhile, a wife abandons her husband, and a dying man longs for his departed lover. Among these characters lives a boy named Uri, a friend and confidant of several conspirators who love and humor him as he weaves in and out of all three stories. The Hill of Evil Counsel is "as complex, vivid, and uncompromising as Jerusalem itself" (Nation).

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Review:

"Oz evokes Israeli life with the same sly precision with which Chekhov evoked pre-Revolutionary Russian life" (Los Angeles Times)

"A marvellous ability to transport the reader into a new set of ideas, feelings and fears... The whole book is masterly" (Financial Times)

"A peerless imaginative chronicler of his country's inner and outer transformations" (Independent)

"An exquisite thinker, Oz is a rare blast of sanity and intelligence" (Observer)

Book Description:

'A perfect book' - Sunday Telegraph

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0156402750
• ISBN 13: 9780156402750
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 210