Tale Of Love And Darkness (eBook)

AMOS OZ (Autor)

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2005 | 1. Auflage
560 Seiten
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Verlag)
978-0-547-54552-3 (ISBN)

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Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this extraordinary memoir is at once a great 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. His mother and father, both wonderful people, were ill-suited to each other. When Oz was twelve and a half years old, his mother committed suicide, a tragedy that was to change his life. He leaves the constraints of the family and the community of dreamers, scholars, and failed businessmen and joins a kibbutz, changes his name, marries, has children, and finally becomes a writer as well as an active participant in the political life of Israel.

A story of clashing cultures and lives, of suffering and perseverance, of love and darkness.

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The International Bestselling memoir from award-winning author Amos Oz, "e;one of Isreal's most prolific writers and respected intellectuals"e; (The New York Times), about his turbulent upbringing in the city of Jerusalem in the era of the dissolution of Mandatory Palestine and the beginning of the State of Israel.Winner of the National Jewish Book Award"e;[An] ingenious work that circles around the rise of a state, the tragic destiny of a mother, a boy's creation of a new self."e;The New YorkerA family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history. A Tale of Love and Darkness is the story of a boy who grows up in war-torn Jerusalem, 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. The story of a man who leaves the constraints of his family and community 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."e;One of the most enchanting and deeply satisfying books that I have read in many years."e;New Republic

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.11.2005
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• ISBN-10: 0-547-54552-5 / 0547545525
• ISBN-13: 978-0-547-54552-3 / 9780547545523