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Amos Oz är en av vår tids mest prisade och älskade författare. Amos Oz har tidigare utforskat en av vår tids stora ödesfrågor, drivkrafterna bakom fanatism och extremism, i klassikern Hur man botar en fanatiker. Hur man botar en fanatiker har bliv...

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"Amos Oz är förnuftets röst i det kaos av lögner och hysterisk retorik som präglar den globala debatten om pågående konflikter", skriver den sydafrikanska Nobelpristagaren Nadine Gordimer i förordet till Hur man botar en fanatiker.I denn...

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I det sena 1950-talets Jerusalem söker den unge bibelforskaren Shmuel nya vägar i livet efter att ha övergetts av sin flickvän och tappat lusten för studierna. Han tar anställning som assistent och samtalspartner hos Gershom Wald, en ärrad och sän...

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"Amos Oz är förnuftets röst i det kaos av lögner och hysterisk retorik som präglar den globala debatten om pågående konflikter", skriver den sydafrikanska Nobelpristagaren Nadine Gordimer i förordet till Hur man botar en fanatiker.I denna högaktue...

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Amos Oz är en av Israels främste författare och han är läst och älskad över stora delar av världen. I en lång rad romaner har han berättat om sin uppväxt och barndom i Israel, om kibbutzsystemet som han själv levde i under många år, om det judiska...

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I israelen Amos Oz mycket uppmärksammade nya roman möts ett antal människors röster i en mångstämmig körsång om dödslängtan, erotik och kärlek. Det är en melankolisk och humoristisk madrigal med sex eller sju sångare plus en Berättare - författare...

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An important testimony as well as a moving portrait of a divided land is revealed in this collection of provocative essays and speeches on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (variously composed before and after the peace initiatives). Preface by the...

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A celebrated novelist and an acclaimed historian of ideas, father and daughter, unravel the chain of words at the core of Jewish life, history, and culture Why are words so important to so many Jews? Novelist Amos Oz and historian Fania Oz-Salzber...

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In the early 1980s, Israel's celebrated novelist Amos Oz traveled throughout his country, recording its history as spoken by its inhabitants. First published in English 10 years ago, this timeless, astonishingly relevant work has been updated to i...

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I sin genombrottsroman "Min Michael" skildrar Amos Oz ett kargt Jerusalem som tynar bort under ett obarmhärtigt vitt ljus. Här träffar litteraturstudenten Hanna geologen Michael. De gifter sig, får barn och för ett stillsamt familjeliv i...

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I det sena 1950-talets Jerusalem söker den unge bibelforskaren Shmuel nya vägar i livet efter att ha övergetts av sin flickvän och tappat lusten för studierna. Han tar anställning som assistent och samtalspartner hos Gershom Wald, en ärrad och sän...

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Amos Oz är en av vår tids mest prisade och älskade författare. Amos Oz har tidigare utforskat en av vår tids stora ödesfrågor, drivkrafterna bakom fanatism och extremism, i klassikern Hur man botar en fanatiker. Hur man botar en fanatiker har bliv...

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Amos Oz är en av Israels främste författare och han är läst och älskad över stora delar av världen. I en lång rad romaner har han berättat om sin uppväxt och barndom i Israel, om kibbutzsystemet som han själv levde i under många år, om det judiska...

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'Evocative and penetrating. Oz handles his narrative with great agility' Sunday Times One day a man may just pick up and walk out. What he leaves behind stays behind. What's left behind has nothing to stare at but his back In the winter of 1965, Y...

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In these brilliant and fascinating essays, Amos Oz brings his experience as a novelist, teacher and critic to bear on the different ways in which writers enter into this strange and seductive contract with readers.

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A powerful and tragicomic blend of politics and personal destiny, Black Box records in a series of letters the wrecked marriage of Ilana and Alex. Seven years of silence following their bitter divorce is broken when Ilana writes to Alex for help o...

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Discover Amos Oz's most iconic work in this extraordinary memoir that is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation *OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE* 'A hero of mine, a moral as wel...

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In 'How To Cure a Fanatic' Amos Oz analyses the historical roots of violence and confronts truths about the extremism nurtured throughout society. By bringing us face to face with fanaticism he suggests ways in which we can all respond. In 'Help U...

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In the summer of 1989, at Tel-Kedar, a small settlement in the Negev Desert, the long time love affair between Theo, a sixty-year-old civil engineer, and Noa, a much younger school teacher, is slowly disintegrating. When a pupil of Noa's dies unde...

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An unnamed author waits in a bar in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night. He is there to give a reading of his work but as he sits, bored, he begins to conjure up the life stories of the people he meets. Later, when the reading is done he asks a woman...

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One of Amos Oz's earliest and most famous novels, My Michael was a sensation upon its initial publication in 1968 and it has an enduring power to surprise and mesmerize. 'His characters...ride the river of history' New Yorker 'A beautiful work of ...

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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...

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'A hero of mine, a moral as well as literary giant' Simon Schama Amos Oz, the internationally acclaimed author of A Tale of Love and Darkness and Judas, grew up in war-torn Jerusalem, where as a boy he witnessed first-hand the poisonous consequenc...

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Eight interlinked family dramas set on an Israeli kibbutz from the masterful storyteller behind A Tale of Love and Darkness 'On the kibbutz it's hard to know. We're all supposed to be friends but very few really are' Ariella, unhappy in love, conf...

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The Hill of Evil Counsel is a fusion of history and imaginative narrative, re-creating the twilight world of Jerusalem during the fading days of the British Mandate. In these three closely linked stories, Oz vividly evokes the stifling atmosphere ...

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As the Germans advance into Poland in 1939, Elisha Pomeranz, a Jewish mathematician and watchmaker, escapes into the wintry forest, leaving behind his beautiful, intelligent wife, Stefa. After the war, having evaded the concentration camps, they b...

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Unto Death contains two beautiful short novels linked by death and destruction. Crusade is set in 1096 - a year of sinister omens. Count Guillaume of Touron sets out on a crusade to Jerusalem and on the way he serves his God by killing any Jews he...

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'A writer of revelatory genius' Guardian Following the bizarre accidental death of his wife, Israeli secret service agent Yoel Ravid retires to the suburbs with his daughter, mother and mother-in-law. After a lifetime of uncovering other people's ...

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Fima, our eponymous hero, is a receptionist at a gynaecology clinic. A preposterous, yet curiously attractive figure, he spends his hours fantasising about solving the nation's problems and pursuing women with equivocal success.

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Where the Jackals Howl is prize-winning author Amos Oz's first collection of stories. On publication it received immediate critical acclaim and revealed Oz to be a master craftsman probing the emotional depths of his characters. The lives of ordin...

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