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A Tale of Love and Darkness; Amos Oz
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Harcourt, $26
Amos Oz is one of Israel's foremost writers - "My Michael," "Elsewhere, Perhaps," "The Same Sea" being some of his many novels. Among his non-fiction books, "Israel, Palestine and Peace" is the most recent.
His memoir covers 120 years of his family's history, the two families coming together from Russia and Poland to meet in Jerusalem in the persons of his ill-starred parents, the pedantic, garrulous father and the romantic, dreamy mother, and produce Amos, their ...
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A Tale of Love and Darkness; Amos Oz
Solares Hill
; Harcourt, $26 Amos Oz is one of Israel's foremost writers - "My Michael," "Elsewhere, Perhaps," "The Same Sea" being some of his many novels. Among his non-fiction books, "Israel, Palestine and Peace" is the most recent. His memoir covers 120 years of his family's history, the two families coming
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Books: Lines in the sand
The Scotsman
; I PICTURE HIM, AT HIS DESK IN THE musky light of early evening in southern Israel, gazing out across his garden taking in the surrounding wall, the single lemon tree, the roses, the patch of grass, a stretch of sky. Dressed in a vest (colour unknown) with casual shorts, in the pleasant warmth of a
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'I TREATED MY MOTHER'S MEMORY WITH SPITE, AS IF SHE WENT OFF WITH A LOVER' Israeli writer Amos Oz's work has been shaped by his mother's suicide when he was a child. Now, in his latest book - and for the first time in his literary career - he is ready to tell the true story of her death and how it impacted on his life
Mail on Sunday
; ... interlude with Oz, she went to visit her two sisters in Tel Aviv. While there, she took an overdose of sleeping pills. Who broke the news to Oz? 'My father. The funeral took place in Tel Aviv but when my father and I got there they all decided in a kind of family ...
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The wizard called Oz In a brilliant memoir, one of Israel's finest novelists recounts the birth of his nation against a background of personal grief
Evening Standard - London
; THERE are moments in Amos Oz's forthcoming memoir, A Tale of Love and Darkness, when the pain becomes unendurable. "How good it would be to stop time," he interjects, "and to stop writing this, too." Oz is describing a spring outing with his parents to the Tel Arza woods on the edge of Jerusalem,
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 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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The wizard called Oz; In a brilliant memoir, one of Israel's finest novelists recounts the birth of his nation against a background of personal grief.
The Evening Standard (London, England)
; Byline: NORMAN LEBRECHT THERE are moments in Amos Oz's forthcoming memoir, A Tale of Love and Darkness, when the pain becomes unendurable. How good it would be to stop time, he interjects, and to stop writing this, too. Oz is describing a spring outing with his parents to the Tel Arza woods on the
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 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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'I TREATED MY MOTHER'S MEMORY WITH SPITE, AS IF SHE WENT OFF WITH A LOVER'; Israeli writer Amos Oz's work has been shaped by his mother's suicide when he was a child. Now, in his latest book - and for the first time in his literary career - he is ready to tell the true story of her death and how it impacted on his life.
The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
; ... interlude with Oz, she went to visit her two sisters in Tel Aviv. While there, she took an overdose of sleeping pills. Who broke the news to Oz? 'My father. The funeral took place in Tel Aviv but when my father and I got there they all decided in a kind of family ...
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War and peace
The Scotsman
; He's fought in two wars but Amos Oz spends his days campaigning for peace. As he prepares to spread the word at the Edinburgh Book Festival, Israel's greatest living writer talks to Tom Adair about rebellion and reconciliation in the Middle East Amos oz, at his desk in the study of his house in the
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Amos Oz in the Midrashic Mode.(literary analysis of Panther in the Basement)(Critical Essay)
Midstream
; Fouillez-moi. Un tresor est cache dedans. -- La Fontaine In Imagining the Child in Modern Jewish Fiction (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992), Naomi Sokoloff amply demonstrates that childhood and children hold a prominent place in Jewish and Hebrew fiction. Recently, within the past half-dozen
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 "Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)")
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Interview: Amos Oz talks about his new memoir, "A Tale Of Love And Darkness"
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
; ... interview with Amos Oz and to read an excerpt from his latest book, go to our Web site, npr.org. That's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Jennifer Ludden. Content and Programming copyright 2004 National Public Radio, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Oz's Israel.(A Tale of Love and Darkness)(Book Review)
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
; A TALE Of LOVE AND DARKNESS By AMOS OZ Harcourt. 544 pp. $26. JUST OVER FORTY years ago, a university literature student named Amos Oz summoned the courage to ring S.Y. Agnon's doorbell. Upon hearing the young man's name, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist asked: Aren't you the child who, having been
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