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A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
Love and darkness are just two of the many forces which run through Amos Oz's extraordinary, moving autobiographical novel. He takes us on a bold, courageous journey through his childhood and adolescence, and into the infernal marriage of two kind, well-meaning people- his parents. At the tragic heart o ...Show more
A Tale of Love and Darkness (US PB) by Amos Oz
$32.00 NZD
Category: No Category
Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this bestselling and critically acclaimed work is at once a 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 ...Show more
Elsewhere, Perhaps by Amos Oz
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
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 Reuven, the school teacher whose true calling is poetry, his ...Show more
Judas by Amos Oz
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Amos Oz's first major novel in a decade - since A Tale of Love and Darkness, which sold over 100,000 copies. It is selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the Times Literary Supplement. Shmuel, a young, idealistic student, is drawn to a mysterious handwritten note on a campus noticeboard. This takes him ...Show more
Judas by Amos Oz; Nicholas De Lange Lange (Translator); Nicholas De Lange (Translator)
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: near fine
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017 Amos Oz's first major novel in a decade - since A Tale of Love and Darkness, which sold over 2 million copies worldwide Shmuel - a young, idealistic student - has abandoned his studies in Jerusalem, taking a live-in job as a companion to a cantan ...Show more
Rhyming Life and Death by Amos Oz
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
The novel centres around 8 hours in the life of the Author (unnamed), a literary celebrity in his forties, who is in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night to give a reading. Bored, he looks for distraction - and finds copy. On the way he stops at a cafe where he 'bumps into' some of his own characters. In hi ...Show more
Rhyming Life and Death by Amos Oz
$29.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
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, not least Ricky, an equally bored but seductive waitress. Later, when the reading is underway, he weaves ...Show more
Scenes from Village Life by OZ AMOS
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
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 persuade him that they must get rid of his ageing mother in order to sell the house. An old man grumbles to his daughter about the unexplained digging ...Show more
Soumchi by Amos Oz
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
When Soumchi, an eleven-year-old boy growing up in British-occupied Jerusalem just after World War II, receives a bicycle as a gift from his Uncle Zemach, he is overjoyed-even if it is a girl's bicycle. Ignoring the taunts of other boys in his neighborhood, he dreams of riding far away from them, out of ...Show more
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