Amos Oz
1) Fima
Author
Publisher
Siruela
Pub. Date
2019
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras 2007
Una novela llena de sensualidad, humor e inteligencia.
Efraim Nomberg, Fima, tiene cincuenta y cuatro años y vive en Jerusalén. Huérfano de madre desde los diez, mantiene una complicada relación con su padre. Tras haber creado muchas expectativas como estudiante de historia y, después, como poeta, su existencia se llena de pronto de renuncias....
Una novela llena de sensualidad, humor e inteligencia.
Efraim Nomberg, Fima, tiene cincuenta y cuatro años y vive en Jerusalén. Huérfano de madre desde los diez, mantiene una complicada relación con su padre. Tras haber creado muchas expectativas como estudiante de historia y, después, como poeta, su existencia se llena de pronto de renuncias....
Author
Language
English
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Description
The International Bestselling memoir from award-winning author Amos Oz, "one of Isreal's most prolific writers and respected intellectuals" (The New York Times), about his turbulent upbringing in the city of Jerusalem in the era of the dissolution of Mandatory Palestine and the beginning of the State of Israel.
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award
"[An] ingenious work that circles around the rise of a state, the tragic destiny of a mother,...
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award
"[An] ingenious work that circles around the rise of a state, the tragic destiny of a mother,...
Author
Language
English
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Description
A romance in Israel between No'a, a 45-year-old school teacher, and Theo, a 60-year old civil engineer. They are longtime lovers whose relationship is disintegrating--his passivity irritates her, her energy threatens him. Told from alternative points of view against the background of life in a settlement in the Negev Desert.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 and profundity, the mad landscape of our time and his place.” Here, in his first book, is a disturbing...
The Washington Post praised Israeli author Amos Oz as “one of our essential writers, laying out for our observation, in ever-increasing breadth and profundity, the mad landscape of our time and his place.” Here, in his first book, is a disturbing...
5) Judas
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Winner of the International Literature Prize, the new novel by Amos Oz is his first full-length work since the best-selling A Tale of Love and Darkness. Jerusalem, 1959. Shmuel Ash, a biblical scholar, is adrift in his young life when he finds work as a caregiver for a brilliant but cantankerous old man named Gershom Wald. There is, however, a third, mysterious presence in his new home. Atalia Abarbanel, the daughter of a deceased Zionist leader,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Strange things are happening in Tel Ilan, a century-old pioneer village. A disgruntled retired politician complains to his daughter that he hears the sound of digging at night. Could it be their tenant, that young Arab? But then the young Arab hears the diggings sounds, too. And where has the mayor's wife gone, vanished without trace, her note saying "Don't worry about me"?
7) My Michael
Author
Pub. Date
1972
Language
English
Description
Set in 1950s Jerusalem, My Michael tells the story of a remote and intense woman named Hannah Gonen and her marriage to a decent but unremarkable man named Michael. As the years pass and Hannah's tempestuous fantasy life encroaches upon reality, she feels increasingly estranged from him and the marriage gradually disintegrates. This novel is at once a haunting love story and a reflective portrait of place.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
""Oz lifts the veil on kibbutz existence without palaver. His pinpoint descriptions are pared to perfection. His people twitch with life." -- Scotsman In Between Friends, Amos Oz returns to the kibbutz of the late 1950s, the time and place where his writing began. These eight interconnected stories, set in the fictitious Kibbutz Yekhat, draw masterly profiles of idealistic men and women enduring personal hardships in the shadow of one of the greatest...
9) The same sea
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
From the internationally acclaimed Israeli author comes a heartbreaking and sensuous novel in verse that involves a widowed father, a prodigal son, and the son's enticing young girlfriend.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"An urgent and deeply necessary work, Dear Zealots offers three ... essays that speak directly to our present age, on the rise of zealotry in Israel and around the world. From the incomparable Amos Oz comes a series of three essays: on the universal nature of fanaticism and its possible cures, on the Jewish roots of humanism and the need for a secular pride in Israel, and on the geopolitical standing of Israel in the wider Middle East and internationally....
11) A perfect peace
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
On a kibbutz, the country's founders and their children struggle to come to terms with their land and with each other. The messianic father exults in accomplishments that had once been only dreams; the son longs to establish an identity apart from his father; the fragile young wife is out of touch with reality; and the gifted and charismatic "outsider" seethes with emotion. Through the interplay of these brilliantly realized characters, Oz evokes...
12) Fima
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
"Fima lives in Jerusalem, but feels that he is in Jerusalem by mistake, that he ought to be somewhere else. In the course of his life he has had several love affairs, several ideas, has written a book of poems that aroused some expectations, has thought about the purpose of the universe and where the country has lost its way, has spun a detailed fantasy about founding a new political movement, has felt longings of one sort or another, and the constant...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
Description
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, religious zealots, aging pioneers, desperate Arabs, visionaries-asking them questions about Israel's past, present, and future. Observant or secular, rich or...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1974]
Language
English
Description
Oz has crafted an intricate tale of people constantly seeking escape from a hostile world, an escape symbolized on its highest level by the watchmaker Pomeranz, a mathematician and musician. It lightly touches on everything under the sun as it flows and turns from Poland to Israel, from Heidegger to Stalin, from mathematics to gossip, from espionage to metaphysics ...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
From "a great and true voice of our time" (Washington Post Book World), comes this story of Proffy, a twelve-year-old living in Palestine in 1947. When Proffy befriends a member of the occupying British forces who shares his love of language and the Bible, he is accused of treason by his friends and learns the true nature of loyalty and betrayal. Translated by Nicholas de Lange.
16) To know a woman
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Following the bizarre accidental death of his wife, Israeli secret service agent Yoel Ravid retires to the suburbs with his daughter, mother and mother-in-law. After a lifetime of uncovering other people's secrets he is forced to look back at the lies he has told himself; at the desolate enigma of his wife's life and death; his years of service to the state and the riddle of his daughter's behavior.
17) Black box
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
Seven years after their divorce, Ilana breaks the bitter silence with a letter to Alex, a world-renowned authority on fanaticism, begging for help with their rebellious adolescent son, Boaz. One letter leads to another, and so evolves a correspondence between Ilana and Alex, Alex and Michel (Ilana's Moroccan husband), Alex and his Mephistophelian Jerusalem lawyer-a correspondence between mother and father, stepfather and stepson, father and son, each...