50 Amos Oz A Tale Of Love And Darkness Book

A tale of love darkness by amos oz is a most extraordinary book an exceedingly personal insightful account of a life that began when palestine was a british mandated territory with the author coming of age as israel was born.

Amos oz a tale of love and darkness book. He takes us on a seductive journey through his childhood and adolescence along jerusalem s war torn streets in the 1940s and 50s and into the infernal marriage of two kind well meaning people. Touching haunting wrenching amusing and sometimes downright hilarious. He died in 2018. His fussy logical father and his dreamy romantic mother.

One of the most enchanting and deeply satisfying books that i have read in many years robert alter the new republic tragic comic and utterly honest a tale of love and darkness is at once a family saga and a magical self portrait of a writer who. A tale of love and darkness by amos oz 448pp chatto windus 16 99. It is a story that vastly transcends the label of autobiography and which manages to encapsulate the extreme complexity of the author s life and the initial 50. Visit the amos oz author page.

In 2011 a bootleg kurdish translation was found in a bookstore in northern iraq. Love and darkness are just two of the powerful forces that run through amos oz s extraordinary moving story. This book is both richly panoramic and intensely personal. A passionate advocate of a two state solution with palestine oz rocketed into the limelight with his 1968 novel my michael and became globally recognised in 2002 with his complex autobiographical account a tale of love and darkness.

Some time in the night between saturday and sunday the fifth and sixth of january 1952 amos oz s mother ended her life in.