Scenes from Village Life

AvAmos Oz

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Engelska, 2011

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2011-07-14
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781409019732
Förlag:Vintage Publishing
Översättare:Nicholas De Lange, 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.

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"These stories have both force and mystery, and they cast a quiet spell" Scotland on Sunday "A powerfully bleak portrait of loneliness, confusion and cracked bonds" The Times "These stories, in their humanity, may do more for Israel than any of the decisions we have been led to expect of its leaders in the months to come" New Statesman "I enjoyed Amos Oz's Scenes From Village Life a great deal... it explores what is universal, what is entirely idiosyncratic, about daily life in Israel away from the obvious conflicts" -- Kate Kellaway Observer "Oz's characters might be drawn from Chekhov: their lives seem an irresoluble muddle of sorrow, baffled hopes and missed chances; his compassion for them makes the reader care deeply about them, too. This is a wise, beautiful and enduring book" -- Richard Davenport-Hines Spectator