To Know a Woman (Harvest in translation) - Softcover

OZ, AMOS

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156906805 ISBN 13: 9780156906807

Publisher: Thomson Learning, 1999

Synopsis

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year "[To Know a Woman has] the powerful undertow of myth . . . A rich and affecting novel." -- New York Times Following the accidental death of his wife, Israeli secret service agent Yoel Ravid retires to the suburbs with his daughter, mother, and mother-in-law. After a lifetime of uncovering other people's secrets, he is forced to look back on his own: the desolate enigma of his wife's life and death, his years of service to the state, the riddle of his daughter's behavior. Amos Oz infuses Yoel's story with poetry, humor, and a vivid sense of the madness inherent in everyday existence. "His language is Hebrew, his setting Israel, his message is universal." -- Boston Jewish Times

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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

About this edition

• Publisher: Thomson Learning
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0156906805
• ISBN 13: 9780156906807
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 262