O best-seller internacional de Amos Oz adaptado ao cinema por Natalie Portman.Saga de uma família e mágico auto-retrato de um escritor, Uma História de Amor e Trevas é a história de um menino que cresce numa Jerusalém devastada pela guerra, num pequeno apartamento apinhado de livros e de parentes que falam diversas línguas. A história de um adolescente cuja vida mudou para sempre com o suicídio da mãe. A história de um homem que declara a sua independência e volta costas ao mundo e...

The third novel from the international bestselling author of Judas. "A profusion of delightful passages couched in unfailingly lovely language." — The New York Times Book Review1939. As the Nazis advance into Poland, a Jewish mathematician and watchmaker named Pomeranz escapes into the wintry forest, leaving behind his beautiful, intelligent wife, Stefa. After the war, having evaded the concentration camps, they begin to build new lives; Stefa in S...

"Thoughtful, self-assured and highly sophisticated, full of the most skillful modulations of tone and texture. A modern Israeli Madame Bovary." — The New York Times Book ReviewSet in 1950s Jerusalem, My Michael is the story of a remote and intense woman named Hannah Gonen and her marriage to a decent, pragmatic, but unremarkable geology professor named Michael. Wedded too young, emotionally unprepared for motherhood, and forced to abandon her unive...

Jeruzalem, de winter van 1959. Sjmoeël Asj besluit zijn studie (en zijn scriptie waarin hij zich vooral zou richten op de rol van de mysterieuze Judas) af te breken. In diezelfde tijd verlaat zijn vriendin hem en blijkt dat zijn ouders hem niet meer financieel kunnen ondersteunen. Sjmoeël heeft er genoeg van en wil Israël verlaten, maar dan ziet hij een advertentie die hem de mogelijkheid geeft om toch te blijven, ook al mag hij niemand vertellen waar hij is.Hij komt terecht in het huis va...

The acclaimed author presents "three passionate lectures about the state of politics in Israel" in this "humorous, mournful, enraged, and uplifting" volume ( Kirkus).A National Jewish Book Award FinalistIsraeli author Amos Oz has won numerous awards for his novels capturing the cultural and political complexities of his country, including the Frankfurt Peace Prize, the Primo Levi Prize, and the National Jewish Book Award. But these...

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 poor, native-...

Amos Oz groeide op als enig kind van een afstandelijke, rationele vader en een romantische, depressieve moeder, in een kleine, volgepakte woning, waar boeken de hoofdbewoners zijn. Ook hij neemt zijn toevlucht tot de wereld van de boeken en observeert zijn familieleden als tragikomische personages uit het werk van Tsjechov en Tolstoj. Als hij twaalf is, pleegt zijn moeder zelfmoord. Na deze dramatische gebeurtenis die zijn leven tekent, verruilt de jongen op zijn veertiende het claustrofob...

Discover Amos Oz’s most iconic work in this extraordinary memoir that is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation*OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE*‘A hero of mine, a moral as well as literary giant’ Simon SchamaAmos Oz's remarkable, moving story takes us on a seductive journey through his childhood and adolescence, along Jerusalem's ...

The renowned Israeli author's debut novel. "An appealing tribute to the persistence of pathos and warmth among human beings clustered against the night." — Kirkus ReviewsSituated only two miles from a hostile border, Amos Oz's fictional community of Metsudat Ram is a microcosm of the Israeli frontier kibbutz. There, held together by necessity and menace, the kibbutzniks share love and sorrow under the guns of their enemies and the eyes of history.

"Les clés. Ne les perdez pas. Voici celle de la maison et celle de votre chambre. Défense absolue d’inviter quelqu’un, homme ou femme. Encore une chose : vous me signerez, ici, que vous vous engagez à ne parler de nous à personne. Même pas aux membres de votre famille. Vous n’évoquerez jamais ce que vous faites chez nous." Jérusalem, 1959. Contre la promesse d’un logement et d’un petit salaire, l’étudiant Shmuel s’engage à tenir compagnie à Gershom Wald, un vieil homme fantasque passionné ...

"A delicate contemporary tale about the quiddities of love and the perpetual mysteries of human motivations" from the bestselling Israeli author of Judas ( Los Angeles Times).A New York Times Notable Book of the YearAt Tel-Kedar, a settlement in the Negev desert, the longtime love affair between Theo, a sixty-year-old civil engineer, and Noa, a young schoolteacher, is slowly disintegrating. When a pupil dies under d...

Au début de la fondation du kibboutz, nous formions une grande famille. Bien sûr, tout n’était pas rose, mais nous étions soudés. Le soir, on entonnait des mélodies entraînantes et des chansons nostalgiques jusque tard dans la nuit. On dormait dans des tentes et l’on entendait ceux qui parlaient pendant leur sommeil. L’idéal de vie en communauté a-t-il résisté à l'érosion du temps pour les habitants du kibboutz Yikha ? Ben Gourion est Premier Ministre, et la société israélienne n’est déjà ...