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A Tale of Love and Darkness

By Amos Oz, Nicholas De Lange (Translator)

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| Hardcover | 9780151008780

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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 the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and fiContinue

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 the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and fifties, in a small apartment crowded with books in twelve languages and relatives speaking nearly as many. His mother and father, both wonderful people, were ill-suited to each other. When Oz was twelve and a half years old, his mother committed suicide, a tragedy that was to change his life. He leaves the constraints of the family and the community of dreamers, scholars, and failed businessmen and joins a kibbutz, changes his name, marries, has children, and finally becomes a writer as well as an active participant in the political life of Israel.

A story of clashing cultures and lives, of suffering and perseverance, of love and darkness.

Critics

  • The burden of history

    A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz 448pp, Chatto & Windus, £16.99 Some time in the night between Saturday and Sunday the fifth and sixth of January, 1952, Amos Oz's mother ended her life in her sister's flat on Ben Yehuda Street in Tel Aviv, over ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • In Abraham’s Vineyard

    When Amos Oz’s moving and frank autobiography—partly family saga, partly Bildungsroman, partly self-portrait—was first published in Israel two years ago, it was praised as his finest book so far. In a review in Haaretz, the novelist Batya Gur drew at ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Mon, 23 Aug 2010

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