AMOS OZ
Born in Jerusalem in 1939, Amos Oz is the internationally acclaimed author of many novels and essay collections, translated into over forty languages, including his brilliant semiautobiographical work, A Tale of Love and Darkness. He has received several international awards, including the Prix Femina, the Israel Prize, the Goethe Prize, the Frankfurt Peace Prize and the 2013 Franz Kafka Prize. He lives in Israel and is considered a towering figure in world literature.
ALSO BY AMOS OZ
Fiction
My Michael
Elsewhere, Perhaps
Touch the Water, Touch the Wind
Unto Death
The Hill of Evil Counsel
Soumchi
Where the Jackals Howl
A Perfect Peace
Black Box
To Know a Woman
Don’t Call It a Night Panther in the Basement
The Same Sea
A Tale of Love and Darkness
Rhyming Life and Death
Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest
Scenes from Village Life Between Friends
Judas
Non-fiction
In the Land of Israel
The Slopes of Lebanon
Under this Blazing Light
Israel, Palestine and Peace
The Story Begins How to Cure a Fanatic
AMOS OZ Fima
TRANSLATED FROM THE HEBREW BY Nicholas de Lange in collaboration with the author
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Copyright © Amos Oz and Keter Publishing House Limited 1991
English translation copyright © Nicholas de Lange 1993 Amos Oz has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this Work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
This edition reissued in Vintage in 2017 First published in Vintage in 2002 First published in hardback in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus in 1993 penguin.co.uk/vintage
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ISBN 9780099933601
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