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Synopsis
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017
Amos Oz's first major novel in a decade - since A Tale of Love and Darkness, which sold over 100,000 copies
Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the Times Literary Supplement
Shmuel, a young, idealistic student, is drawn to a mysterious handwritten note on a campus noticeboard. This takes him to a strange house, where an elderly invalid man requires a paid companion, to argue with and read to him. But there is someone else in the house, too... A woman, who is trailed by ghosts from her past. Shmuel is captivated by her, a sexual obsession which evolves into gentle love and devotion; and he is pulled to the old man, an intellectual obsession which also evolves into gentle love and devotion. Shmuel begins to uncover the house’s tangled history and, in doing so, reaches an understanding that harks back not only to the beginning of the Jewish-Arab conflict, but also the beginning of Jerusalem itself – to Christianity, to Judaism, to Judas.
Set in the still-divided Jerusalem of 1959–60, Judas is an exquisite love story and coming-of-age tale, and a radical rethinking of the concept of treason. It is a novel steeped in desire and curiosity from one of Israel's greatest living writers.
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"[Judas is] many-layered, thought-provoking and – in its love story – delicate as a chrysalis, this is an old-fashioned novel of ideas that is strikingly and compellingly modern." (Peter Stanford Observer)
"A very absorbing addition to his remarkable oeuvre" (Andrew Motion Guardian)
"This book is compassionate as well as painfully provocative, a contribution to some sort of deeper listening to the dissonances emerging from deep within the politics and theology of Israel and Palestine." (Rowan Williams New Statesman)
"After almost two dozen books that track changes in both heart and state with untiring strength and subtlety, the Israeli master has delivered one of the boldest of all his works... Nicholas de Lange, Oz’s distinguished translator, steers these virtuoso transitions between debate and domesticity with unerring skill... Oz can imagine, and inhabit, treachery of every stripe. But he keeps faith with the art of fiction." (Boyd Tonkin Financial Times)
"[A] big, beautiful novel... Funny, wise and provoking." (Kate Saunders The Times)
"challenging, complex and strangely compelling... The ideas at the novel’s centre have great vitality and force. The philosophical passages bristle with linguistic energy, scriptural references and dense detail, vividly conveyed in Nicholas de Lange’s translation." (Eva Hoffman Spectator)
"[It is] rich in material to grapple with. Oz engages with urgent questions while retaining his right as a novelist to fight shy of answers: it’s a mark of his achievement that the result isn’t frustrating but tantalising." (Anthony Cummins Daily Telegraph)
"A masterpiece: command of the word, mastery of construct, the ability to stimulate all the senses of the reader." (La Reppublica)
"Judas is a rich and thrilling novel, one of the most interesting books published this year." (Haaretz)
"Amos Oz belongs to the great authors of world literature" (Suddeutsche Zeitung)
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Amos Oz's first major novel in a decade - since A Tale of Love and Darkness, which sold over 100,000 copies
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1784740500
- ISBN 13 9781784740504
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages288
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