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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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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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In a village far away, deep in a valley, all the animals and birds disappeared some years ago. Only the rebellious young teacher and an old man talk about animals to the children, who have never seen such (mythical) creatures. Otherwise there's a ...

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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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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, confid...

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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 well ...

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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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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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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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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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A young boy coming of age in British-occupied Jerusalem trades away one possession after another, only to find something much more wonderful his first loveWhen Soumchi, an eleven-year-old boy growing up just after World War II, receives a bicycle ...

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The Kibbutz of Metsudat Ram lies in the valley of Jordan, close to the border. Old and young, happy and discontented, the settlers go about their lives as the artillery rumbles in the distance and the war planes shriek overhead. Among them are Reu...

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Winner of the International Literature Prize, the new novel by Amos Oz is his first full-length work since the bestselling A Tale of Love and Darkness.Jerusalem, 1959. Shmuel Ash, a biblical scholar, is adrift in his young life when he finds work ...

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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 established Oz as a writer of international acclaim. Like all great books, it has an enduring power to surprise and mesmerize.Set...

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The Same Sea is Amos Oz's most adventurous and inventive book, a novel of lyrical beauty and narrative power and the book by which he would like to be remembered. We meet the middle-aged Albert; his wife, whom he has lost to cancer; his prodigal s...

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Strange things are happening in Tel Ilan, a century-old pioneer village. A disgruntled retired politician complains to his daughter that he hears the sound of digging at night. Could it be their tenant, that young Arab? But then the young Arab hea...

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Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this extraordinary memoir is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history.It is the story of a boy growing up in ...

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A hero of mine, a moral as well as literary giant Simon SchamaAmos 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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The Israeli master's exceptional final novel SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017 Shmuel - a young, idealistic student - has abandoned his studies in Jerusalem, taking a live-in job as a companion to a cantankerous old man. But ...

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In a village far away, deep in a valley, all the animals and birds disappeared some years ago. Only the rebellious young teacher and an old man talk about animals to the children, who have never seen such (mythical) creatures. Otherwise there's a ...

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The Kibbutz of Metsudat Ram lies in the valley of Jordan, close to the border. Old and young, happy and discontented, the settlers go about their lives as the artillery rumbles in the distance and the war planes shriek overhead. Among them are Reu...

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His parting shot at opposing the storm of fanaticism breaking over our times Financial Times Dear Zealots is an essential collection of three essays written out of a sense of urgency, concern, and a belief that a better future is still possible. I...

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Diese Geschichte über »Liebe und Abenteuer« ist Amos Oz' eigene. Sie spielt an einem Sommertag in Jerusalem im Jahr 1947. Alles beginnt damit, daß Sumchi, der elfjährige Held und Ich-Erzähler, ein Fahrrad geschenkt bekommt. »Einmal bekam ich ein F...

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Um die Gesellschaft eines Landes zu beschreiben, kann man sich, grob gesagt, zweier Methoden bedienen: Man kann, mit dem Anspruch auf Repräsentativität, ihre unterschiedlichen Bereiche und deren Zusammenhänge analysieren; oder man kann, durch eine...

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Mit dem ironischen Porträt des sich selbst quälenden Intellektuellen Fima ist Amos Oz nicht nur eine Diagnose der gegenwärtigen israelischen Gesellschaft gelungen, sondern zugleich ein äußerst humor- und liebevolles Porträt der täglich mit den Fra...

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Der Alptraum ist die Kehrseite des Traumes, sein schmerzhafter Preis. Dies haben auch jene erfahren müssen, die in den dreißiger und vierziger Jahren auf der Flucht vor dem Holocaust nach Palästina gelangt sind; gestrandet in einer unwirtlichen La...

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Tel Kedar, eine Kleinstadt am Rande der Negev-Wüste. Durch den Tod des offenbar drogenabhängigen Schülers Immanuel Orvieto kommen die Dinge ins Rollen. Immanuels Vater, ein in Afrika lebender Sicherheitsberater, will zum Gedenken an seinen Sohn in...

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Mit den jüdischen Einwanderungswellen nach Palästina und verstärkt durch die Gründung des Staates Israel im Jahre 1948 ist es zwischen der jüdischen Bevölkerung und deren arabischen Nachbarn zu heftigen Auseinandersetzungen, die in Kriege mündeten...

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