Winner of the National Jewish Book Award: A "gorgeous, rueful collection of eight linked stories" capturing the collective dreams of Israel in the 1950s (Chicago Tribune).
These eight interconnected stories, set in the fictitious Kibbutz Yekhat, draw masterful profiles of idealistic men and women enduring personal hardships in the shadow of one of the greatest collective dreams of the twentieth century. A devoted father who fails to challenge his daughter's lover, an old friend, a man his own age; an elderly gardener who carries on his shoulders the sorrows of the world; a woman writing perversely poignant letters to her husband's mistress.
Each of these stories is a luminous human and literary study; together they offer an eloquent portrait of an idea, and of a charged and fascinating epoch. Award-winning writer Amos Oz, who spent three decades living on a kibbutz, is at home and at his best in this "lucid and heartbreaking" award-winning collection (The Guardian).
"Oz lifts the veil on kibbutz existence without palaver. His pinpoint descriptions are pared to perfection . . . His people twitch with life." --The Scotsman
These eight interconnected stories, set in the fictitious Kibbutz Yekhat, draw masterful profiles of idealistic men and women enduring personal hardships in the shadow of one of the greatest collective dreams of the twentieth century. A devoted father who fails to challenge his daughter's lover, an old friend, a man his own age; an elderly gardener who carries on his shoulders the sorrows of the world; a woman writing perversely poignant letters to her husband's mistress.
Each of these stories is a luminous human and literary study; together they offer an eloquent portrait of an idea, and of a charged and fascinating epoch. Award-winning writer Amos Oz, who spent three decades living on a kibbutz, is at home and at his best in this "lucid and heartbreaking" award-winning collection (The Guardian).
"Oz lifts the veil on kibbutz existence without palaver. His pinpoint descriptions are pared to perfection . . . His people twitch with life." --The Scotsman
About author(s):AMOS OZ is the internationally acclaimed author of over twenty books, including his best-selling memoir A Tale of Love and Darkness. He has received several international awards, including the Franz Kafka Prize, the Prix Méditerranée Étranger, the Israel Prize, and the Frankfurt Peace Prize.
| General | |
| Anul | 2014 |
| Autor | Amos Oz |
| Cod de bare | 9780544227743 |
| Editura | Harpervia |
| Dimensiuni | 203.2 x 134.6 |
| ISBN | 0544227743 |
| Limba | Engleza |
| Pagini | 192 |
| Format | Brosata |
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Amos Oz (nascut Amos Klausner) este un autor, jurnalist si profesor israelian nascut in Jaffa la in 1939. A trecut prin numeroase experiente in timpul copilariei, el si familia sa fiind alungati de casa sa de origine de catre armata israeliana in 1948.
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