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1	A Tale of Love and Darkness more books like this by Amos Oz, N R M de Lange (Translator) add to wishlist Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this bestselling and critically acclaimed work 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 ... see all copies from £4.34! new only from £4.34! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Panther in the basement more books like this by Amos Oz add to wishlist Set in the summer of 1947, this is a rites-of-passage novel about a lonely boy growing up in Jerusalem in the last years of British rule. From underground resistance he is drawn into friendship with the enemy, in the form of a British soldier to whom he teaches Hebrew in return for English lessons. see all copies from £1.90! new only from £4.92! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	The same sea more books like this by Amos Oz add to wishlist Here is a book in a magical category of one, a truly outstanding, resonant and original work, in a bold and daring new form, which breaks the mould of storytelling. It tells an intimate, everyday story of grief, love, attachment and loss through the voices of a fabulous range of characters - in some ways it recalls Under Milk Wood. Nadia Danon is ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.23! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	To Know a Woman more books like this by Amos Oz add to wishlist Following the bizarre accidental death of his wife, an Israeli secret agent retires to the suburbs. After a lifetime of uncovering other people's secrets, he is forced to look back at the lies he has told himself. The author's other books include "My Michael" and "The Slopes of Lebanon". see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.34! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	In the land of Israel more books like this by Amos Oz add to wishlist IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL, a book of essays about Amos Oz's travels there during the war with Lebanon, was the source of heated controversy when it was published in Israel in 1983. The essays combine factual reporting and interviews with Oz's personal feelings about the conflict and about his country. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.88! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Where the jackals howl and other stories more books like this by Amos Oz add to wishlist "Where The Jackals Howl" is prize -winning author Amos Oz's first collection of stories. On publication, it received immediate critical acclaim and revealed Oz to be a master craftsman probing the emotional depths of his characters. The lives of ordinary Israelis are set against the backdrop of community life in Kibbutz. The fate of these ... see all copies from £2.96! new only from £4.29! \| first editions
7	The Amos Oz Reader (Cancelled) more books like this by Amos Oz, Nitza Ben Dov (Editor), Mr. Robert Alter (Foreword by) add to wishlist A rich and varied selection of writings--from the early 1960s to the present--by Amos Oz, one of Israel's leading novelists, public intellectuals, and political activists. see all copies from £7.72! new only from £7.72! \| first editions
8	Black Box more books like this by Amos Oz add to wishlist This novel concerns itself with the frailties and variety of human nature, and looks at the ambivalences in marriage, family, fanaticism and political terror. The novel mirrors the social, political and religious complexities of life in Israel today. Amos Oz is one of Israel's foremost writers. Born in Jerusalem in l939, he is author of "My ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.59! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Fima more books like this by Amos Oz add to wishlist Fina, our eponymous hero, is a receptionist at a gynaecology clinic. A preposterous, yet curiously attractive figure, he spends his hours fantasising about solving the nation's problems and pursuing women with equivocal success. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.47! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	A perfect peace more books like this by Amos Oz add to wishlist Amos Oz's fourth novel is set between the years 1965 and 1967, ending with Israel's Six Day War, and deals with the conflict between rebellious 26-year-old Yonatan Lifshitz and his more conservative and cautious father. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.62! \| signed copies \| first editions
11	Israel, Palestine and Peace: Essays more books like this by Amos Oz add to wishlist An important testimony as well as a moving portrait of a divided land is revealed in this collection of provocative essays and speeches on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (variously composed before and after the peace initiatives). Preface by the Author. Translated by Nicholas de Lange. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book see all copies from £5.57! new only from £9.26! \| first editions
12 view cover	Don't call it night more books like this by Amos Oz add to wishlist In the summer of 1989, at Tel-Kedar, a small settlement in the Negev Desert, the long time love affair between Theo, a sixty-year-old civil engineer, and Noa, a much younger school teacher, is slowly disintegrating. When a pupil of Noa's dies under difficult circumstances, the couple and the entire town are thrown into turmoil. Bestselling author ... see all copies from £1.97! new only from £5.12! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Hill of Evil Counsel more books like this by Amos Oz add to wishlist Three stories in which history and imaginative narrative intertwine to re-create the world of Jerusalem during the last days of the British Mandate. A book "as complex, vivid and uncompromising as Jerusalem itself" (The Nation). Translated by Nicholas de Lange in collaboration with the Author. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book see all copies from £5.57! new only from £6.00! \| first editions
14 view cover	Rhyming Life & Death more books like this by Amos Oz, Nicholas de Lange (Translator) add to wishlist A literary celebrity is in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night to give a reading from his new book. While the obligatory inane questions are being asked and answered, his attention wanders and he begins to invent lives for the strangers he sees around him. see all copies from £8.38! new only from £8.38! \| first editions
15 view cover	Touch the water, touch the wind more books like this by Amos Oz add to wishlist In Amos Oz's third novel, a schoolteacher named Elisha Pomeranz escapes the Nazis by means of a magical flight that eventually lands him in Israel. Meanwhile, his wife ends up in Stalinist Russia. Eventually, the two are reunited in Israel, where Elisha has become a simple shepherd. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.55! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Under This Blazing Light more books like this by Amos Oz, N R M de Lange (Translator), Nicholas De Lange (Translator) add to wishlist This collection - published here in English for the first time - brings together a number of political, personal and literary pieces by Israel's most celebrated novelist and litterateur. Topics covered include: an examination of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a dispute between 'right and right'; reflections on the character of Zionism, on the ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £7.90! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Elsewhere, perhaps more books like this by Amos Oz add to wishlist Set in the Jordan Valley this novel features a poet, his daughter and a truck driver whose common ideal is threatened by love, passion and conflict. The author has also written " The Hill of Evil Counsel", "In the Land of Israel", "A Pefect Peace", "My Michael" and "Black Box". see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.71! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	How to Cure a Fanatic more books like this by Amos Oz add to wishlist Internationally acclaimed novelist Amos Oz grew up in war-torn Jerusalem, where as a boy he witnessed firsthand the poisonous consequences of fanaticism. In two concise, powerful essays, the award-winning author offers unique insight into the true nature of fanaticism and proposes a reasoned and respectful approach to resolving the Israeli ... see all copies from £10.53! new only from £104.24! \| first editions
19 view cover	Unto Death: Crusade and Late Love more books like this by Amos Oz, N R M de Lange (Translator) add to wishlist Two novels by Amos Oz from the early 1970s: CRUSADE (about an 11th-century knight in the Holy Land) and LATE LOVE (the story of a Russian émigré lecturer who travels from kibbutz to kibbutz in contemporary Israel). see all copies from £4.95! new only from £11.47! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	The hill of evil counsel : three stories more books like this by Amos Oz add to wishlist The Hill of Evil Counsel is a fusion of history and imaginative narrative, re-creating the twilight world of Jerusalem during the fading days of the British Mandate. In these three closely linked stories, Oz vividly evokes the stifling atmosphere of impending crisis as real personalities rub shoulders with fictional characters whose hopes and ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.63! \| first editions
21 view cover	New Heart, New Spirit: Biblical Humanism for Modern Israel more books like this by Arie Lova Eliav, Herman Wouk (Designer), Amos Oz (Designer) add to wishlist In the words of the author, "this book represents an attempt to raise anew the banner of human values--both Jewish and universal--sanctified in the Book of Books and it is a call to rally around this banner." see all copies from £5.11! new only from £9.04! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Unto Death: Two Novellas--Crusade & Late Love by Amos Oz add to wishlist Two novels by Amos Oz from the early 1970s: CRUSADE (about an 11th-century knight in the Holy Land) and LATE LOVE (the story of a Russian émigré lecturer who travels from kibbutz to kibbutz in contemporary Israel). see all copies from £6.16! new only from £9.30! \| first editions
23 view cover	de Repente En Lo Profundo del Bosque more books like this by Amos Oz add to wishlist The population of a far off town lives in fear. They are afraid of the dark and afraid of the forest that surrounds their town. This fear began one dark night when all of their animals mysteriously disappeared, never to be seen again. The only information they have is that the one responsible for it all is the evil demon, Nehi. Maya and Maty, two ... see all copies from £13.00! new only from £13.79!
24 view cover	The Silence of Heaven: Agnon's Fear of God more books like this by Amos Oz add to wishlist In "The Silence of Heaven", the world renowned Israeli novelist, Amos Oz introduces us to an extraordinary masterpiece of Hebrew literature that is just now appearing in English, S. Y. Agnon's "Only Yesterday". For Oz, Agnon is a treasure trove of a world no longer available to today's writers, yet deeply meaningful for his wonderment about God, ... see all copies from £10.75! new only from £22.90! \| first editions
25	The Hill of Evil Counsel: Three Stories Translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange in Collaboration with the Author more books like this by Amos Oz add to wishlist The cycle of three novellas that comprises THE HILL OF EVIL COUNSEL was first published in Israel in 1976, where it won the prestigious Brenner Prize for Literature. see all copies from £5.24! signed copies \| first editions

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