Amos Oz: 64 books

Jeruzalem, de winter van 1959. Sjmoeël Asj besluit zijn studie (en zijn scriptie waarin hij zich vooral zou richten op de rol van de mysterieuze Judas) af te breken. In diezelfde tijd verlaat zijn vriendin hem en blijkt dat zijn ouders hem niet meer financieel kunnen ondersteunen. Sjmoeël heeft...

A snapshot of Israel and the West Bank in the 1980s, through the voices of its inhabitants, from the National Jewish Book Award–winning author of Judas. Notebook in hand, renowned author and onetime kibbutznik Amos Oz traveled throughout his homeland to talk with people—workers, soldiers,...

«Ingenioso y electrizante, Los judíos y las palabras logra aunar más de cinco mil años de plegarias, canciones, historias, argumentaciones, loas, maldiciones y chanzas... Es un libro maravilloso.» Jonathan Safran Foer «Los judíos y las palabras es apasionante y divertido y desafía clichés...

Algunos grandes escritores escriben y vuelven a escribir cientos de veces la primera frase de su libro, y nunca pasan de ahí. Otros desisten y, quizá desesperados, deciden empezar con lo primero que se les ocurre. Comenzar a contar una historia, dice Amos Oz, es como intentar conquistar en un restaurante...

The first book from the acclaimed, award-winning author of A Tale of Love and Darkness and the New York Times Notable Book, Scenes from Village Life.   The Washington Post praised Israeli author Amos Oz as “one of our essential writers, laying out for our observation, in ever-increasing breadth...

"A generous imagination at work. [Oz’s] language, for all of its sensuous imagery, has a careful and wise simplicity." — New York Times Book Review Situated only two miles from a hostile border, Amos Oz’s fictional community of Metsudat Ram is a microcosm of the Israeli frontier...

Linked short stories set in a town in the midst of change: “One of the most powerful books you will read about present-day Israel.” —The Jewish Chronicle “‘Scenes from Village Life’ is like a symphony, its movements more impressive together than in isolation. There is, in each story,...

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award: A “gorgeous, rueful collection of eight linked stories” capturing the collective dreams of Israel in the 1950s (Chicago Tribune). These eight interconnected stories, set in the fictitious Kibbutz Yekhat, draw masterful profiles of idealistic men...

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year “A rich symphony of humanity . . . If Oz’s eye for detail is enviable, it is his magnanimity which raises him to the first rank of world authors.” —Sunday Telegraph (UK) At Tel-Kedar, a settlement in the Negev desert, the longtime love...

“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 expectations. He has thought about the purpose of the universe...

As well as being one of Israel’s preeminent writers of fiction, Amos Oz was one of the first voices of conscience in Israel to advocate the creation of a Palestinian state and has been a leading figure of the Peace Now movement since 1977. This superb collection of essays offers Oz’s cogent views...

In Bat Jam, een badplaats bij Tel Aviv, woont de wat saaie belastingadviseur Albert Danon. Zijn vrouw Nadja is pas overleden aan kanker en hun enige zoon Rico is op reis in het Verre Oosten, op zoek naar zichzelf en naar zijn overleden moeder, door wie hij zich verlaten en verraden voelt. In korte...

Die andere Seite des Krieges – Gespräche mit den Soldaten des Sechstagekriegs Nach dem Sechstagekrieg von 1967 initiierte Avraham Shapira zusammen mit Amos Oz das wohl einflussreichste israelische Buch: "Gespräche mit israelischen Soldaten". Es entstand, als "nach dem Sechstagekrieg...

En este libro se reúnen las que probablemente sean las dos mejores novelas cortas de Amos Oz, uno de los más relevantes escritores contemporáneos. En ellas, el autor explora el ambiente de odio e incomprensión en el que, a menudo, viven y mueren los integrantes de la comunidad judía. Amor tardío,...