Amos Oz
Paperback | Pages: 560 pages Rating: 4.22 | 8071 Users | 865 Reviews
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| Original Title: | סיפור על אהבה וחושך |
| ISBN: | 015603252X (ISBN13: 9780156032520) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Jerusalem(Israel) Russia,2002 Tel Aviv(Israel) |
| Literary Awards: | Prix France Culture (2004), Koret Jewish Book Award for Biography, Autobiography or Literary Study (2005), Goethe Prize (2005), Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize for Nonfiction (2005) |
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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 witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history.It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and fifties, in a small apartment crowded with books in twelve languages and relatives speaking nearly as many. The story of an adolescent whose life has been changed forever by his mother's suicide when he was twelve years old. The story of a man who leaves the constraints of his family and its community of dreamers, scholars, and failed businessmen to join a kibbutz, change his name, marry, have children. The story of a writer who becomes an active participant in the political life of his nation.
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| Title | : | A Tale of Love and Darkness |
| Author | : | Amos Oz |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Harvest Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 560 pages |
| Published | : | November 1st 2005 by Harvest / Harcourt (first published 2002) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Cultural. Israel. Biography. Literature. Jewish. History. Biography Memoir |
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Ratings: 4.22 From 8071 Users | 865 ReviewsWeigh Up Epithetical Books A Tale of Love and Darkness
Very difficult book if you do not have time to catch up every day. Too many information with names about authors family. Its a no for the time since I have beginned it almorw than a year ago but not being able to read wvwry day due to newborn baby and two jobs makes it really hard to remeber the plot. I guess i eill have to statted over some time in the future.I selected this book after reading a news story about a Palestinian lawyer personally financing its translation into Arabic for his friends and family to read, his name is Elias Khoury. He was moved by a personal account through the eyes of a young boy about the birth of Israel, its families and real world strife; he hoped for better understanding between the warring sides. I thought this must be some book. It is.I've always been cloudy on the subject of the Israeli conflict, who started what,
Sometimes we are not in the right mood to read a particular book.
Very difficult book if you do not have time to catch up every day. Too many information with names about authors family. Its a no for the time since I have beginned it almorw than a year ago but not being able to read wvwry day due to newborn baby and two jobs makes it really hard to remeber the plot. I guess i eill have to statted over some time in the future.
Although I think the book would have benefited from some tightening, particularly in the last quarter, A Tale of Love and Darkness is a masterpiece.
It is a crime to try to rush through this richly textured memoir, you have to slow down, you have to savour it and let its images sink in, you have to see, through the eyes of the alien only child that was Amos Oz, the strange melange of old world jews bickering and conjuring up an extraordinary new, yet ancient country, ripping it out of an existing land, dreams centuries old and a great many nightmares of the first half of the twentieth century. It is excruciatingly and painfully honest,
A moving, intense memoir of the life of this prolific Israel author, tells of life in the Land of Israel from the 1930s until the early 1950s. The author manages to juggle humor and sadness, in a book which does bring to life the Israel of that time. It is circular in nature and not chronological and dwells also on life in Europe for Jews before the re-establishment of the Jewish State. The two problems with the book are the amount of detail can become monotonous and boring and that Oz sometimes
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