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.

"Oz evokes Israeli life with the same sly precision with which Chekhov evoked pre-Revolutionary Russian life" Los Angeles Times "A marvellous ability to transport the reader into a new set of ideas, feelings and fears... The whole book is masterly" Financial Times "A peerless imaginative chronicler of his country's inner and outer transformations" Independent "An exquisite thinker, Oz is a rare blast of sanity and intelligence" Observer

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.

"Oz evokes Israeli life with the same sly precision with which Chekhov evoked pre-Revolutionary Russian life" Los Angeles Times "A marvellous ability to transport the reader into a new set of ideas, feelings and fears... The whole book is masterly" Financial Times "A peerless imaginative chronicler of his country's inner and outer transformations" Independent "An exquisite thinker, Oz is a rare blast of sanity and intelligence" Observer

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.

"Oz evokes Israeli life with the same sly precision with which Chekhov evoked pre-Revolutionary Russian life" Los Angeles Times "A marvellous ability to transport the reader into a new set of ideas, feelings and fears... The whole book is masterly" Financial Times "A peerless imaginative chronicler of his country's inner and outer transformations" Independent "An exquisite thinker, Oz is a rare blast of sanity and intelligence" Observer