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13 reviews
Amos Oz

Harvest Books, 2002

a great writer a wonderful book
This is Amos Oz at his best. In the "Same Sea" Oz continues to grow and explore the boundries of literature and of the human condition. His ability to synthesize prose and poetry is superb. He is among the greatest contemporay authors. He defines the relationships between the characters to each other to themselves and to the universe with grace. Beyond that he introduces himself as both ...

Israel, Palestine and Peace: Essays

3 reviews
Amos Oz

Harvest Books, 1995

Wonderful, Informative essays
Beautifully written essays that illustrate the problems of the Holy Lands frankly and passionately. Oz brings me my first real understanding of both sides of the struggle in Israel. He succeeds with the clarity that has alluded most news teams, and does it in a way that degrades no one. As always Oz's writing, is remarkable.

Black Box

15 reviews
Amos Oz

Vintage, 1993

It is not an airplane, it is a relationship and it is falling apart
What first pops in one's mind after seeing the title of Amos Oz "Black Box" is a plane accident. And that is exactly what the book is about. But it is not an aircraft as we know it, in the novel, the vehicle is a marriage, but in a more broad scope, the black box records the fail of relationships. From the book, the reader can conclude that all relationships are designated to fail, and people in ...

Elsewhere, Perhaps

3 reviews
Amos Oz

Harvest Books, 1985

Early Oz- The Kibbutz as "Our Town"
One of the interesting features of this novel is the voice in which Oz writes. He writes in a kind of collective voice, as if the kibbutz were being described by its members, a kind of 'our Kibbutz' like Thorton Wilder's 'Our Town'. In adopting this voice Oz however presents things with a certain kind of innocence, and yet irony. He is making you see things the way the kibbutz members see them ...

A Tale of Love and Darkness

33 reviews
Amos Oz

Harvest Books, 2005

A beautiful and moving memoir
This is a beautiful and moving memoir from a sensitive and humanistic writer of great skill and style. The reader will feel that he or she is personally experiencing growing up with the author in the most modest and simple circumstances, in the young State of Israel, from before statehood and into its early years, getting to know as friends and neighbors some of its intellectual leaders who were ...

My Michael

7 reviews
Amos Oz

Harvest Books, 2005

"Deception always gives itself away. It is like a blanket which is too short."
Hannah Gonen, thirty years old and living in Jerusalem in the late 1950s, has been wife for ten years to Michael, a man she pursued and married when she was in her first year at the university and he was a graduate student. Michael, who describes himself as "good...a bit lethargic, but hard-working, responsible, clean, and very honest," eventually earns his PhD. in geology and begins work at ...

How to Cure a Fanatic

7 reviews
Amos Oz

Princeton University Press, 2006

A great deal of wisdom in a very small package.
I usually do not find books written by Israelis or Palestinians about past or present events in the land whose very name is a matter of perspective and politics to be very interesting or enlightening. The authors usually either have an agenda or are engaging in pure propaganda. This book (along with David Grossman's "Death as a Way of Life") is a rare exception. In lucid, eloquent and ...

Panther in the Basement

14 reviews
Amos Oz

Harvest Books, 1998

such is our story: it comes from darkness, wanders around, and returns to darkness
One day, Proffi sees the words "low-down traitor" painted on his wall, and next thing he knows, he is summoned to a trial for his treachery. What is he guilty of? Proffi is a twelve-year old boy from Jerusalem. It is 1947 and Israel is on the verge of independence. The British are still in the country and as they prepare to leave, everyone is speculating what is going to happen. We get to know ...

In the Land of Israel (Harvest in Translation)

12 reviews
Amos Oz

Harvest Books, 1993

A small collective portrait of Israel in the 1980's
This is a book about meetings in Israel with different kinds of Israelis. Oz does a good job of listening sympathetically and narrating the stories and complaints of those he meets. One especially powerful meeting occurs in a development town where those of the ' second Israel' powerfully spell out their grievances. The writing here is clear and often very moving. Though Oz is of course touted ...

To Know a Woman (Harvest in Translation)

8 reviews
Amos Oz

Harvest Books, 1992

To Know A Man
Yoel Ravid, is my kind of man. He was an Israeli secret service agent for most of his life, and had the ability to sense the truth in people. Amos Oz has written an extraordinary novel, "To Know a Woman". However, in Yoel's quest to find the secret of his life and what might have gone wrong; we learn as does Yoel, much more about his life and how to live it. This novel has been misnamed, it ...

A Perfect Peace

5 reviews
Amos Oz

Harvest Books, 1993

I loved this book!
Having spent some time in Israel and having become more and more interested in the country and it's people I was excited to discover this book set in Israel, on a kibbutz. However, as I read, this book provoded me with a greater understanding of the complexities and the daily fears of the characters. Because Amos Oz has done such a wonderful job at interpreting the inner struggles and dreams ...

Suitcase: A Journal of Transcultural Traffic, Volume 3
Amos Oz, Nuruddin Farah, ...

Suitcase: a Journal of, 1998

The pages of Suitcase intertwine the freshest mix of writing, art, and photography from around the world. From Amos Oz's tale of epiphany at the border between Israeli desert and suburbia to Nuruddin Farah's account of surviving childhood, crocodiles, and colonialism in Somalia; from Jacques Derrida's reflections on politics and immigration in a new Europe to Seydou Keita's historic photographs of Mali's changing society, Suitcase's ...

The Hill of Evil Counsel

3 reviews
Amos Oz

Harvest Books, 1991

israeli statehood
This is a series of three stories, all of which share the same time period and location, Jerusalem just prior to the departure of the British in 1948. The characters all encompass the same sense of destiny, fear and the unknown surrounding the birth of the tiny new nation, Israel. The strange small,large boy, Uri, is encircled by a conflicting group of newly arrived immigrants and activists ...

Where the Jackals Howl and Other Stories

1 review
Amos Oz

Bantam Books (Mm), 1982

Doom and Enclosure
Here is a stunning collection of short fiction from Amos Oz. Like much contemporary Israeli fiction, it is infused with a sense of impending doom. Most of the stories take place in a world familiar to Oz in the early 1960s, the kibbutz. But there are surprises here too. The story A Strange Fire, a masterpiece of short fiction, is set in a middle class Israeli home, among the rising consumer ...

My Michael
Amos Oz

Lancer Books, Inc., 1970

One of Israels best young novelist's books. A story about a marriage.

The Story Begins: Essays on Literature

3 reviews
Amos Oz

Harcourt, 1999

To draw the reader in and keep him telling the story
In this small book the Israeli writer Amos Oz analyzes story- beginnings . The writers of the stories are Fontane, Agnon, Chekhov, Yaacov Shabtai,Dostoevsky, Raymond Carver, among others. He introduces the volume by describing the difference between a storyteller- novelist , writer of fiction works, and the way a scholarly researcher works. His father who was a scholar had a desk piled with ...

Don't Call It Night (Harvest in Translation)

5 reviews
Amos Oz

Harvest Books, 1997

enchanting, melancholic, wise
Two people, so fundamentally different, who somehow find peace and understanding together. This is, in principle, what "Don't call it night" is about. Amos Oz, probably the most famous Israeli writer and propagator of peace, wrote a very wise novel. Israel is inseparable from the story, its history and geography (the overwhelming desert) are in every sentence, but the truths emerging from ...

Una historia de amor y oscuridad (Nuevos Tiempos)
Amos Oz

Siruela, 2004

Amor y oscuridad son dos de las fuerzas que interaccionan en este libro, una autobiografia en forma de novela, una obra literaria compleja que comprende los origenes de la familia de Amos Oz, la historia de su infancia y juventud, primero en Jerusalen y despues en el kibbutz de Hulda, la tragica existencia de sus padres, una descripcion epica del Jerusalen de aquellos anos, de Tel Aviv, que es su reverso, entre los anos treinta y cincuenta. La ...

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