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  • THE HILL OF EVIL COUNSEL
    AMOS OZ
    Three stories of “sensuous prose and indelible imagery” 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...

    $179.00

  • TOUCH THE WATER, TOUCH THE WIND
    AMOS OZ
    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 e...

    $229.00

  • RHYMING LIFE & DEATH
    AMOS OZ
    Fiction and reality merge inside the mind of a famous Israeli author in this “hilarious and profound . . . slyly philosophical novel” (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 hi...

    $169.00

  • SCENES FROM VILLAGE LIFE
    AMOS OZ
    Linked short stories set in a town in the midst of change: “One of the most powerful books you will read about present-day Israel.” —The Jewish Chronicle   “‘Scenes from Village Life’ 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 ...

    $159.00

  • IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL
    AMOS OZ
    A snapshot of Israel and the West Bank in the 1980s, through the voices of its inhabitants, from the National Jewish Book Award–winning author of Judas.   Notebook in hand, renowned author and onetime kibbutznik Amos Oz traveled throughout his homeland to talk with people—workers, soldiers, religious zealots, aging pioneers, desperate Arabs, visionaries—asking them questions ab...

    $179.00

  • MY MICHAEL
    AMOS OZ
    “Thoughtful, self-assured and highly sophisticated, full of the most skillful modulations of tone and texture. A modern Israeli Madame Bovary.” —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...

    $229.00

  • A PERFECT PEACE
    AMOS OZ
    This tale of a conflicted family living on a kibbutz in Israel just before the Six-Day War is “Oz's strangest, riskiest, and richest novel.” —The Washington Post Book World   On a kibbutz, the country’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...

    $249.00

  • ISRAEL, PALESTINE AND PEACE
    AMOS OZ
    “Powerful” essays from a founder of the Peace Now movement and advocate for a two-state solution (Library Journal). The haunting poetry of [Oz's] prose and the stunning logic of his testimony make a potent mixture." —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, ...

    $169.00

  • FIMA
    AMOS OZ
    The National Jewish Book Award–winning author presents an “astonishing . . . galvanic and intoxicating” portrait of a man—and a generation—adrift (The New Yorker). Efraim “Fima” Nisan lives in Jerusalem, but feels he ought to be somewhere else. In his life he has had secret love affairs, good ideas, and written a book of poems that aroused expectations. He has thought about the...

    $229.00

  • ELSEWHERE, PERHAPS
    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 l...

    $229.00

  • DON'T CALL IT NIGHT
    AMOS OZ
    “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 d...

    $229.00

  • THE SLOPES OF LEBANON
    AMOS OZ
    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 ...

    $229.00

  • SOUMCHI
    AMOS OZ
    A tale of “dazzling brilliance . . . a simple story which conveys boundless meanings both modest and diverse, set in Jerusalem directly after WWII” (Historical Novel Society). When Soumchi, an eleven-year-old boy growing up in British-occupied Jerusalem just after World War II, receives a bicycle as a gift from his Uncle Zemach, he is overjoyed—even if it is a girl’s bicycle. I...

    $169.00

  • WHERE THE JACKALS HOWL
    AMOS OZ
    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 “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.” Here, in his first boo...

    $229.00

  • BETWEEN FRIENDS
    AMOS OZ
    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 drea...

    $179.00

  • DEAR ZEALOTS
    AMOS OZ
    The acclaimed author presents “three passionate lectures about the state of politics in Israel” in this “humorous, mournful, enraged, and uplifting” 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 Pri...

    $179.00

  • CONCOER A UNA MUJER
    AMOS OZ
    El relato, íntimo y personal, de un hombre que nunca llegó a conocer a su mujer. Yoel Raviv, agente del Mosad, acaba de enviudar y decide abandonar su profesión y alquilar una casa en las afueras de Tel Aviv para comenzar una nueva etapa junto a su hija, su madre y su suegra. Este periodo de paz se ve truncado cuando Yoel descubre que, en verdad, no sabía nada de su esposa. Emp...
    Agotado

    $309.00

  • LA BICICLETA DE SUMJI
    OZ, AMOS
    Sumji es un niño israelí de 11 años que vive en Jerusalén durante el dominio británico, tras la segunda Guerra Mundial. Un día su tío Zémaj le regala una bici, que Sumji cambia por un tren, y éste por un perro que se le escapa, pero, finalmente, encuentra un suertudo sacapuntas que se convierte en una mágica prenda de amor. ...
    Agotado

    $60.00

  • UNA PANTERA EN EL SOTANO
    AMOS OZ
    Esta es la historia de la relación entre un niño judío y un sargento de la policía británica interesado en el Israel bíblico y en la lengua hebrea. A cambio de lecciones de inglés, Profi acepta darle clases de hebreo, pensando que así podrá obtener información del "enemigo"; pero al enterarse de esa relación, sus amigos lo acusan de ser un traidor. ...
    Agotado

    $90.00

  • DE REPENTE EN LO PROFUNDO DEL BOSQUE
    OZ AMOS
    Los habitantes de una aldea apartada viven asustados por la oscuridad y el bosque que los rodea debido a que una noche desaparecieron todos sus animales y nadie supo cómo sucedió ni nadie los volvió a ver. Maya y Maty, quienes guardan un secreto común y son diferentes a los otros niños de la aldea, se adentran en lo profundo del bosque para descubrir la verdad. ...
    Agotado

    $80.00