Black Box - Softcover

Oz, Mr Amos

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0547747594 ISBN 13: 9780547747590

Publisher: Harpervia, 2012

Synopsis

Seven years after their divorce, Ilana breaks the bitter silence with a letter to Alex, a world-renowned authority on fanaticism, begging for help with their rebellious adolescent son, Boaz. One letter leads to another, and so evolves a correspondence between Ilana and Alex, Alex and Michel (Ilana's Moroccan husband), Alex and his Mephistophelian Jerusalem lawyer--a correspondence between mother and father, stepfather and stepson, father and son, each pleading his or her own case.

The grasping, lyrical, manipulative, loving Ilana has stirred things up. Now, her former husband and her present husband have become rivals not only for her loyalty but for her son's as well.

Black Box is a record of passion, an ingenious, witty, feeling novel of contemporary life. Amos Oz at his novelistic, human, and poetic best.

About this title

Review:

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

"Here is a writer unafraid of displaying the full spectrum of the emotions, and a writer - be it noted - who actually seems to have some faith left in the future" (Guardian)

"Shows to brilliant effect the tenacity of non-love and the power of separation" (Observer)

"A remarkably moving novel, conveying newly the tensions of human needs where politics invades sexual love" (Times Literary Supplement)

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: Harpervia
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0547747594
• ISBN 13: 9780547747590
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288