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Love and darkness are just two of the powerful forces that run through Amos Oz's extraordinary, moving story. He takes us on a bold, seductive journey through his childhood and adolescence, a quixotic child's eye view along Jerusalem's wartorn streets in the 1940s and '50s, and into the infernal marriage of two kind, well-meaning people: his fussy, logical father, and his dreamy, romantic mother. Caught between them is one small boy with the weight of generations on his shoulders. And at the tragic heart of the tale is the suicide of his mother, when Amos was twelve-and-a-half years old. Soon after, still a gawky adolescent, he left home, changed his name and became a tractor driver on a kibbutz. 'Jews go back to Palestine' urged the graffiti in 1930s Lithuania, so they went; then later the walls of Europe shouted 'Jews get out of Palestine'. Oz's story dives into 120 years of family history and paradox, the saga of a Jewish love-hate affair with Europe that sweeps from Vilna and Odessa, via Poland and Prague, to Israel. Those who stayed in Europe were murdered; those who escaped took the past with them. In search of the roots of his family tragedy, he uncovers the secrets and skel
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"ƯAn¨ indelible memoir" -- John Leonard "New York Times"
"[An] indelible memoir"
"[An] indelible memoir" -- John Leonard "New York Times"
PRAISE FOR "A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS"
"Detailed and beautiful . . . As he writes about himself and his family, Oz is also writing part of the history of the Jews . . . We are in the hands here of a capable, practiced seducer."--"Los Angeles Times"
"This lyrical saga . . . succeeds both as a revelatory tale of the artist as young man and a gripping portrait of the young Jewish state itself."--"The Miami Herald"
"[An] indelible memoir"--John Leonard "New York Times "
PRAISE FOR"A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS"
"Detailed and beautiful . . . As he writes about himself and his family, Oz is also writing part of the history of the Jews . . . We are in the hands here of a capable, practiced seducer."--"Los Angeles Times"
"This lyrical saga . . . succeeds both as a revelatory tale of the artist as young man and a gripping portrait of the young Jewish state itself."--"The Miami Herald"
"[An] indelible memoir"--John Leonard "New York Times "
PRAISE FOR "A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS"
"Detailed and beautiful . . . As he writes about himself and his family, Oz is also writing part of the history of the Jews . . . We are in the hands here of a capable, practiced seducer."--"Los Angeles Times"
"This lyrical saga . . . succeeds both as a revelatory tale of the artist as young man and a gripping portrait of the young Jewish state itself."--"The Miami Herald"
"[An] indelible memoir"
--John Leonard "New York Times "
PRAISE FOR A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS
"Detailed and beautiful . . . As he writes about himself and his family, Oz is also writing part of the history of the Jews . . . We are in the hands here of a capable, practiced seducer."--Los Angeles Times
"This lyrical saga . . . succeeds both as a revelatory tale of the artist as young man and a gripping portrait of the young Jewish state itself."--The Miami Herald
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"[An] indelible memoir"
"[An] indelible memoir" -- John Leonard "New York Times"
PRAISE FOR "A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS"
"Detailed and beautiful . . . As he writes about himself and his family, Oz is also writing part of the history of the Jews . . . We are in the hands here of a capable, practiced seducer."--"Los Angeles Times"
"This lyrical saga . . . succeeds both as a revelatory tale of the artist as young man and a gripping portrait of the young Jewish state itself."--"The Miami Herald"
"[An] indelible memoir"--John Leonard "New York Times "
PRAISE FOR"A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS"
"Detailed and beautiful . . . As he writes about himself and his family, Oz is also writing part of the history of the Jews . . . We are in the hands here of a capable, practiced seducer."--"Los Angeles Times"
"This lyrical saga . . . succeeds both as a revelatory tale of the artist as young man and a gripping portrait of the young Jewish state itself."--"The Miami Herald"
"[An] indelible memoir"--John Leonard "New York Times "
PRAISE FOR "A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS"
"Detailed and beautiful . . . As he writes about himself and his family, Oz is also writing part of the history of the Jews . . . We are in the hands here of a capable, practiced seducer."--"Los Angeles Times"
"This lyrical saga . . . succeeds both as a revelatory tale of the artist as young man and a gripping portrait of the young Jewish state itself."--"The Miami Herald"
"[An] indelible memoir"
--John Leonard "New York Times "
PRAISE FOR A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS
"Detailed and beautiful . . . As he writes about himself and his family, Oz is also writing part of the history of the Jews . . . We are in the hands here of a capable, practiced seducer."--Los Angeles Times
"This lyrical saga . . . succeeds both as a revelatory tale of the artist as young man and a gripping portrait of the young Jewish state itself."--The Miami Herald
Tragic, comic and incomparable: an autobiographical epic and a comedie humaine for our times, which is both the portrait of an artist and the story of the birth of a nation, spanning several generations and moving with them from Russia, Lithuania, the Ukraine, to Jerusalem.
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0701174218
- ISBN 13 9780701174217
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages528
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