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Author Oz, Amos, 1939-2018.

Title The Amos Oz reader / Amos Oz ; selected and edited by Nitza Ben-Dov.

Publication Info. Boston [Mass.] : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  892.4 OZ1    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  892.4 OZ    Check Shelf
Description xv, 392 pages ; 21 cm
Note Includes index.
Contents The kibbutz : "an exemplary nonfailure." The kibbutz at the present time (from Under this blazing light) ; Where the jackals howl (from Where the jackals howl) ; The way of the wind (from Where the jackals howl) ; An extended family (from Elsewhere, perhaps) ; Secret adaptability (from A perfect peace) -- Jerusalem, an alien city. Alien city (from Under this blazing light) ; It's cold in this Jerusalem of yours (from My Michael) ; Whoever moves toward the light moves toward the holy city (from "Crusade,' in Unto death) ; Life nowadays is like a stupid party (from The hill of evil counsel) ; A city where all men are half prophet, half prime minister (from Fima) -- In the promised land. The meaning of homeland (from Under this blazing light) ; Thank God for his daily blessings (from In the land of Israel) ; Yours with great respect and in Jewish solidarity (from Black box) ; And so Yoel Ravid began to give in (from To know a woman) ; Hebrew melodies (from The slopes of Lebanon) -- In an autobiographical vein. Autobiographical note (from Under this blazing light) ; Father and son in a search for love (from The same sea) ; My mother was thirty-eight when she died (from A tale of love and darkness) ; Imagining the other is a deep and subtle human pleasure (upon acceptance of the Goethe Prize).
Subject Oz, Amos, 1939-2018 -- Translations into English.
Added Author Ben-Dov, Nitza.
Added Title Works. Selections. English. 2009
ISBN 9780156035668: $15.95
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