Amos Oz

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 Reviews
Situated 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 third novel from the international bestselling author of Judas. "A profusion of delightful passages couched in unfailingly lovely language." —The New York Times Book Review
1939. 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...

The celebrated author and peace activist addresses the war in Lebanon and the deep political divides within Israel in these articles and essays.
As well as being one of Israel's preeminent writers of fiction, Amos Oz was one of the first Israeli voices of conscience to advocate the creation of a Palestinian state. Through his forcefully argued speeches, articles and essays, he was a leading figure of the Peace Now movement since 1977. This...

Amos Oz was one of the first voices of conscience to advocate for a two-state solution. As a founding member of the Peace Now movement, Oz has spent over thirty-five years speaking out on this issue, and these powerful essays and speeches span an important and formative period for understanding today's tension and crises. Whether he is discoursing on the role of writers in society or recalling his grandmother's death in the context of the language's...

Here Amos Oz captures the atmosphere of hatred in which Jews have lived, died, and struggled for understanding. In Crusade, a band of soldier’s journeys toward the Holy Land, killing any Jews they encounter, but soon the Crusaders face their own reckoning, as disease and deprivation take their toll. Late Love portrays an aged lecturer in modern Israel with paranoid visions of the destruction of his people at the hands of the Soviets. He is out...

La revista Luvina y la Editorial de la Universidad de Guadalajara reúnen estos cien Cuentos de Asia, Europa y América para celebrar el número 100 de Luvina y sus veinticinco años ininterrumpidos de publicación. Son textos representativos de la literatura universal contemporánea que Luvina ha publicado, especialmente en los números dedicados al país invitado de honor de la Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara. Es una muestra formada...

Im Winter 1959/60 gibt Shmuel Ash sein Studium auf und zieht in das Haus eines behinderten alten Mannes in Jerusalem als dessen Helfer und Begleiter. Hier begegnet ihm die verführerische, unnahbare Atalja Abrabanel. Neugier und Lust packen ihn, aber sie warnt ihn, sich in sie zu verlieben. Nach und nach gelingt es ihm, ihr Geheimnis zu enthüllen, das sie mit Gershom Wald, dem schroffen alten Mann, teilt, das die beiden auf unheilsame Weise eng miteinander...

The award-winning author recounts his boyhood in war-torn Jerusalem of the 1940s and 1950s, his mother's tragic suicide when he was twelve, his decision to join a kibbutz and change his name, and his participation in Israel's political upheavals.

"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"--

"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 Year
At 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...