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- Publisher: Harcourt
- Number of Pages: 538
- ISBN: 0151008787
- WAPI (Tower ID): 107594390
- Release Date: October 15, 2004
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #237486 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #8035 in Biography & Autobiography (See Top 100 Biography & Autobiography Bestsellers)
- #169 in Ethnic Cultures - General (See Top 100 Ethnic Cultures - General Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "A Tale of Love and Darkness" by Amos Oz and Nicholas De Lange to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "A Tale of Love and Darkness"Browse more products related to "Amos Oz and Nicholas De Lange"Review"Like his fiction, it's full of humour and lovely writing....[T]he main story [is] of Amos and his parents. And here, though humour still touches everything, the darkness of the title prevails....A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS is an important book for students of Amos Oz, and a fascinating one in general." "This memoir/family history brims over with riches....This is a powerful, nimbly constructed saga of a man, a family and a nation forged in the crucible of a difficult, painful history." "A moving, emotionally charged memoir....a boon for admirers of Oz's work and contemporary Israeli literature in general." "[A] remarkable book--in many ways the best book [Oz] has ever written....This book is both richly panoramic and intensely personal....[I]t also abounds in the most touching and often funny accounts of family eccentrics on both sides....This is one of the most enchanting and deeply satisfying books that I have read in many years." "[An] indelible memoir....[A] glorious, masterly lamentation...." First lineI was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment. Publisher's noteA life story of the award-winning author of The Same Sea recounts his boyhood in war-torn Jerusalem of the 1940s and 1950s, his mother's tragic suicide when he was twelve, his decision to join a kibbutz and change his name, and his participation in Israel's political upheavals. AnnotationIsraeli writer Amos Oz looks back on his youth in Jerusalem in Israel's early days, remembering an intellectual milieu and a family whose life revolved around literature--an idyllic childhood for a bookish boy. The changes brought by the beginning of war in 1948 changed everything, and the suicide of Oz's mother four years later, when the boy was 12, permanently altered his life in both practical and spiritual ways. But Oz retained his love of reading and writing, and moved steadily toward his own career as the man Newsweek has referred to as "a kind of Zionist Orwell." If You Enjoy "A Tale of Love and Darkness (Hardcover)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "A Tale of Love and Darkness (Hardcover)" by Amos Oz (Author) and Nicholas ...There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Ethnic Cultures - General Bestsellers
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