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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 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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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 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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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 consequences...

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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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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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Discover Amos Ozs 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 well ...

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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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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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Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this family saga tells the the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the 1940s and '50s. It is also a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its t...

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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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"På kibbutzen är det tänkt att alla ska vara vänner. Men väldigt få är det." I Vänner emellan öser Amos Oz ur sina egna erfarenheter om livet på en kibbutz i slutet av 1950-talet. Här möts människor från olika skeden i livet. Det är åtta...

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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 its hard to know. Were all supposed to be friends but very few really are Ariella, unhappy in love, confides...

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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 charactersride the river of history New Yorker 'A beautiful wor...

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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 o...

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In a world full of hype, noise, and confusion, the simple lucidity of The Same Sea is totally unexpected New York Times An intimate, everyday tale of unrequited love and grief Nadia is dead. Her widower, Albert, comforted by his old friend Bettine...

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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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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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One of the greatest prose writers in contemporary fiction The Times In the last years of British rule in Jerusalem, a lonely, bookish Israeli boy befriends a British soldier in this tale of friendship in the face of enmity. Jerusalem 1947. British...

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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&apos...

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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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Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this family saga tells the the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the 1940s and 50s and fifties. It is also a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived th...

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"Astonishing . . . galvanic and intoxicating." --The New Yorker Fima lives in Jerusalem, but feels he ought to be somewhere else. In his life he has had secret love affairs, good ideas, and written a book of poems that aroused expectatio...

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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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Few writers have explored the souls of Israelis with the clear, unsentimental vision that Oz brings to both his novels and his nonfiction.His characters, while influenced by political events in a land under constant siege, also exhibit the univers...

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Amos Oz, Israel's preeminent writer, once again displays his mastery of human nature as he spins a rich tapestry of character and political intrigue out of the birth of Israel. The year is 1947, the last days of the British mandate in Palestine, a...

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Oz's most adventurous and inventive novel, this is the book by which he would like to be remembered. The cast of characters ranges from a prodigal son to a widowed father who has taken in his son's enticing young girlfriend. In this human profusio...

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One of Amos Oz's earliest and most famous novels, My Michael created a sensation upon its initial publication in 1968 and established Oz as a writer of international acclaim. Like all great books, it has an enduring power to surprise and mesmerize...

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