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Amos Oz - Scenes from Village Life, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

Scenes from Village Life

Av Amos Oz

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Beskrivning
A teenage son shoots himself under his parents' bed. They sleep that night unaware he is lying dead beneath them.A stranger turns up at a man's door to persude him that they must get rid of his ageing mother in order to sell the house.An old man grumbles to his daughter about the unexplained digging and banging he hears under the house at night. As each story unfolds, Amos Oz, builds a portrait of a village in Israel. It is a surreal and unsettling place. Each villager is searching for something, and behind each episode is another, hidden story. In this powerful, hynotic work Amos Oz peers into the darkness of our lives and gives us a glimpse of what goes on beneath the surface of everyday existence.By the winner of the 2013 Franz Kafka Prize, previous winners of which include Philip Roth, Ivan Klima, Elfriede Jelinek, Harold Pinter and John Banville.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2012-11-01
  • Mått: 129 x 198 x 17 mm
  • Vikt: 191 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 272
  • Förlag: Vintage Publishing
  • ISBN: 9780099541363
  • Översättare: Nicholas De Lange
  • Utmärkelser: Short-listed for Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2013 (UK)
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Born in Jerusalem in 1939, Amos Oz was the internationally acclaimed author of many novels and essay collections, translated into over forty languages, including his brilliant semi-autobiographical work, A Tale of Love and Darkness. His last novel, Judas, was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017 and won the Yasnaya Polyana Foreign Fiction Award. He received several international awards, including the Prix Femina, the Israel Prize, the Goethe Prize, the Frankfurt Peace Prize and the 2013 Franz Kafka Prize. He died in December 2018.

Recensioner i media

This is a dark book, with a dark vision of contemporary Israel… The whole, rich, disturbing mixture makes one feel as if something dark is digging away at the foundations, something unnameable ready to emerge. It is one of the most powerful books you will read about present-day Israel.

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2 recensioner, genomsnitt 4.5/5

  1. 5/5 Terese
  2. 4/5 Fegele

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