A Tale of Love and Darkness

Informationen zum Autor Born in Jerusalem in 1939, Amos Oz was the internationally acclaimed author of many novels and essay collections, translated into over forty languages, including his brilliant semi-autobiographical work, A Tale of Love and Darkness . His last novel, Judas , was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017 and won the Yasnaya Polyana Foreign Fiction Award. He received several international awards, including the Prix Femina, the Israel Prize, the Goethe Prize, the Frankfurt Peace Prize and the 2013 Franz Kafka Prize. He died in December 2018. Klappentext Amos Oz is the internationally acclaimed author of many novels amd essay collections, he has received several international awards including the Israel Prize and Frankfurt Peace Prize. Oz's story dives into 120 years of family history and paradox, the saga of a Jewish love-hate affair with Europe that sweeps from Vilna and Odessa, via Poland and Prague, to Israel. Zusammenfassung A story, in which the author takes us on a journey through his childhood and adolescence, along Jerusalem's war-torn streets in the 1940s and '50s, and into the infernal marriage of two kind, well-meaning people: his fussy, logical father, and his dreamy, romantic mother.

Product details

• Authors: Amos Oz
• Assisted by: Nicholas de Lange (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.08.2005
• EAN: 9780099450030
• ISBN: 978-0-09-945003-0
• No. of pages: 528
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 33 mm
• Series: Vintage Paperbacks; VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage Paperbacks
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Israelische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), Israel, Europe, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Autobiography: historical, political & military, Autobiography: literary, Jewish Studies, Social and cultural history, Autobiography: historical, political and military, Autobiography: writers, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities