<div>A snapshot of Israel and the West Bank in the 1980s, through the voices of its inhabitants, from the National Jewish Book Award&ndash;winning author of Judas. Notebook in hand, renowned author and onetime kibbutznik Amos Oz traveled throughout his homeland to talk with people&mdash;workers, soldiers, religious zealots, aging pioneers, desperate Arabs, visionaries&mdash;asking them questions about Israel&rsquo;s past, present, and future. Observant or secular, rich or poor, native-born or new immigrant, they shared their points of view, memories, hopes, and fears, and Oz recorded them. What emerges is a distinctive portrait of a changing nation and a complex society, supplemented by Oz&rsquo;s own observations and reflections, that reflects an insider&rsquo;s view of a country still forming its own identity. In the Land of Israel is &ldquo;an exemplary instance of a writer using his craft to come to grips with what is happening politically and to illuminate certain aspects of Israeli society that have generally been concealed by polemical formulas&rdquo; (The New York Times). </div>

In the Land of Israel

<div>Fiction and reality merge inside the mind of a famous Israeli author in this &ldquo;hilarious and profound . . . slyly philosophical novel&rdquo; (Booklist). In this novel, Amos Oz offers a prismatic portrait of the storytelling impulse, with an extended glimpse inside the mind of a celebrated, unnamed Author. On a stiflingly hot night, the Author is in Tel Aviv to give a reading from his new book. As his attention wanders, he begins to invent lives for the strangers he sees around him: here, a self-styled cultural guru, Yakir Bar-Orian Zhitomirski; there, a love-starved professional reader, Rochele Reznik; to say nothing of Ricky the waitress, the real object of his desires. Reality and fiction blend in this ingenious, poignant work by the author of A Tale of Love and Darkness, a winner of the Koret Jewish Book Award. &ldquo;A fable on themes of sex, death and writing pitched somewhere between the fictional universes of JM Coetzee and Milan Kundera.&rdquo; &mdash; The Guardian &ldquo;The witty and melancholy recorder of his country&rsquo;s brilliant sufficiencies. . . . Now Oz takes an equally witty, equally melancholy look at his role as a writer.&rdquo; &mdash;Los Angeles Times &ldquo;From the prodigious Oz comes a delightfully elusive . . . story of imagination, talent and the transitory nature of fame. . . . Stamped with Oz&rsquo;s charm and graceful skill in creating rich characters.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly</div>

Rhyming Life &amp; Death

<div>Three stories of &ldquo;sensuous prose and indelible imagery&rdquo; that re-create the world of Jerusalem during the last days of the British Mandate (The New York Times). Refugees drawn to Jerusalem in search of safety are confronted by activists relentlessly preparing for an uprising, oblivious to the risks. Meanwhile, a wife abandons her husband, and a dying man longs for his departed lover. Among these characters lives a boy named Uri, a friend and confidant of several conspirators who love and humor him as he weaves in and out of all three stories. The Hill of Evil Counsel is &ldquo;as complex, vivid, and uncompromising as Jerusalem itself&rdquo; (The Nation). &ldquo;Oz evokes Israeli life with the same sly precision with which Chekhov evoked pre-Revolutionary Russian life.&rdquo; &mdash;Los Angeles Times</div>

The Hill of Evil Counsel

<div>Linked short stories set in a town in the midst of change: &ldquo;One of the most powerful books you will read about present-day Israel.&rdquo; &mdash;The Jewish Chronicle &ldquo;&lsquo;Scenes from Village Life&rsquo; is like a symphony, its movements more impressive together than in isolation. There is, in each story, a particular chord or strain; but taken together, these chords rise and reverberate, evoking an unease so strong it&rsquo;s almost a taste in the mouth . . . &lsquo;Scenes from Village Life&rsquo; is a brief collection, but its brevity is a testament to its force. You will not soon forget it.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review Strange things are happening in Tel Ilan, a century-old pioneer village. A disgruntled retired politician complains to his daughter that he hears the sounds of digging at night. Could it be their tenant, that young Arab? But then the young Arab hears the digging sounds too. And where has the mayor&rsquo;s wife gone, vanished without a trace, her note saying &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t worry about me&rdquo;? Around the village, the veneer of new wealth&mdash;gourmet restaurants, art galleries, a winery&mdash;barely conceals the scars of war and of past generations: disused air-raid shelters, rusting farm tools, and trucks left wherever they stopped. Scenes From Village Life is a memorable novel in stories by the inimitable Amos Oz: a brilliant, unsettling glimpse of what goes on beneath the surface of everyday life. Translated from Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange &ldquo;Finely wrought . . . Oz writes characterizations that are subtle but surgically precise, rendering this work a powerfully understated treatment of an uneasy Israeli conscience.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly, starred review &ldquo;Informed by everything, weighed down by nothing, this is an exquisite work of art.&rdquo; &mdash;The Scotsman</div>

Scenes from Village Life

<div>This tale of a conflicted family living on a kibbutz in Israel just before the Six-Day War is &ldquo;Oz&#39;s strangest, riskiest, and richest novel.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post Book World On a kibbutz, the country&rsquo;s founders and their children struggle to come to terms with their land and with each other. The messianic father exults in accomplishments that had once been only dreams; the son longs to establish an identity apart from his father; the fragile young wife is out of touch with reality; and the gifted and charismatic &ldquo;outsider&rdquo; seethes with emotion. Through the interplay of these brilliantly realized characters, Oz evokes a drama that is chillingly, strikingly universal. &ldquo;[Oz is] a peerless, imaginative chronicler of his country&rsquo;s inner and outer transformations.&rdquo; &mdash;Independent (UK)</div>

A Perfect Peace

<div>&ldquo;Powerful&rdquo; essays from a founder of the Peace Now movement and advocate for a two-state solution (Library Journal). The haunting poetry of [Oz&#39;s] prose and the stunning logic of his testimony make a potent mixture.&quot; &mdash;Washington Post Book World 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&#39;s tension and crises. Whether he is discoursing on the role of writers in society or recalling his grandmother&#39;s death in the context of the language&#39;s veracity; examining the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a tragicomedy or questioning the Zionist dream, Oz remains trenchant and unflinching in this moving portrait of a divided land. &quot;[Oz is] the modern prophet of Israel.&quot; &mdash;Sunday Telegraph (UK)</div>

Israel, Palestine and Peace

<div>&ldquo;Thoughtful, self-assured and highly sophisticated, full of the most skillful modulations of tone and texture. A modern Israeli Madame Bovary.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review Set in 1950s Jerusalem, My Michael is the story of a remote and intense woman named Hannah Gonen and her marriage to a decent, pragmatic, but unremarkable geology professor named Michael. Wedded too young, emotionally unprepared for motherhood, and forced to abandon her university studies, Hannah grows bored, frustrated, and increasingly removed from the banal certainty of her immediate world. As years pass, and Michael goes off to war, Hannah&rsquo;s heady fantasy life encroaches upon reality. Hannah grows ever more estranged from her husband, as the marriage begins to disintegrate. &ldquo;A flickering, multi-toned Israeli novel which grapples with time&rsquo;s incursions, love&rsquo;s deceptions, and the diminishment of desire&rdquo; (Kirkus Reviews), My Michael is at once a haunting love story and a rich, reflective portrait of a place and time that &ldquo;takes the reader into the fevered mind of a young woman&rdquo; (The Guardian).</div>

My Michael

<div>Winner of the National Jewish Book Award: A &ldquo;gorgeous, rueful collection of eight linked stories&rdquo; 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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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 &ldquo;lucid and heartbreaking&rdquo; award-winning collection (The Guardian). &ldquo;Oz lifts the veil on kibbutz existence without palaver. His pinpoint descriptions are pared to perfection . . . His people twitch with life.&rdquo; &mdash;The Scotsman &ldquo;A collection of stories . . . that boasts the sense, scope and unity of a novel . . . Breathtaking.&rdquo; &mdash;Irish Examiner &ldquo;A complex and melancholic vision of people struggling to transcend their individuality for the sake of mundanely idealist goals.&rdquo; &mdash;The Times Literary Supplement</div>

Between Friends

<div>The first book from the acclaimed, award-winning author of A Tale of Love and Darkness and the New York Times Notable Book, Scenes from Village Life. The Washington Post praised Israeli author Amos Oz as &ldquo;one of our essential writers, laying out for our observation, in ever-increasing breadth and profundity, the mad landscape of our time and his place.&rdquo; Here, in his first book, is a disturbing and moving collection of short stories about kibbutz life. Each of the eight stories in this volume grips the reader from the first line, and convey the tension and intensity of feeling in the founding period of Israel, a brand-new state with an age-old history. Some are love stories, more are hate stories, and frequently the two urges intertwine. &ldquo;A strong, beautiful, disturbing book. It speaks piercingly&mdash;whether wittingly or unwittingly, I know not&mdash;of a dimension of the Israeli experience not often discussed, of the specter of the other brother, of a haunting, an unhealed wound; it reminds us of polarizations everywhere that bind and diminish us, that may yet rend us.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times &ldquo;As you read, you feel yourself, in all these stories, sinking deeper into the loam of Oz&rsquo;s sensibility, a paradoxical mix of sensuality and disdain. A good collection by an important international writer.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews (starred review)</div>

Where the Jackals Howl

<div>The acclaimed author presents &ldquo;three passionate lectures about the state of politics in Israel&rdquo; in this &ldquo;humorous, mournful, enraged, and uplifting&rdquo; volume (Kirkus). A National Jewish Book Award Finalist Israeli author Amos Oz has won numerous awards for his novels capturing the cultural and political complexities of his country, including the Frankfurt Peace Prize, the Primo Levi Prize, and the National Jewish Book Award. But these essays on the universal nature of fanaticism and its possible cures, on the Jewish roots of humanism and the need for a secular pride in Israel, and on the geopolitical standing of Israel in the wider Middle East and internationally, &ldquo;may contain his most urgent message yet.&rdquo; (Ruth Eglash, Washington Post). These essays were written, Oz states, &ldquo;first and foremost&rdquo; for his grandchildren: they are a patient, learned telling of history, religion, and politics, to be thumbed through and studied, clung to even, as we march toward an uncertain future. &ldquo;Concise, evocative . . . Dear Zealots is not just a brilliant book of thoughts and ideas&mdash;it is a depiction of one man&rsquo;s struggle, who for decades has insisted on keeping a sharp, strident and lucid perspective in the face of chaos and at times of madness.&rdquo; &mdash;David Grossman, winner of the Man Booker International Prize</div>

Amos Oz

Books By Amos Oz (10 Books)

In the Land of Israel

Rhyming Life & Death

The Hill of Evil Counsel

Scenes from Village Life

A Perfect Peace

Israel, Palestine and Peace

My Michael

Between Friends

Where the Jackals Howl

Dear Zealots

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