Between Friends by Amos Oz

Between Friends by Amos Oz

Eight interlinked family dramas set on an Israeli kibbutz from the masterful storyteller behind A Tale of Love and Darkness On the kibbutz its hard to know.

Lucid and heartbreaking… Explores the always uncertain relationships between men and women, parents and children, friends and enemies, in a clear, clipped language perfectly suited to the laconic tone of the narrative and impeccably rendered into English by Sondra Silverston -- Alberto Manguel * Guardian *
Between Friends is arguably something new, a collection of stories, but so interlinked by theme, setting and its rolling cast that it boasts the sense, scope and unity of a novel… The writing, tight and delicate, is technically breathtaking -- Billy O'Callaghan * Irish Examiner *
Oz is brilliant at compact images in which a small action expresses a complexity of unarticulated emotion -- Rebecca Abrams * Financial Times *
There’s a beautiful economy and simplicity to Oz’s storytelling * The Times *
Oz lifts the veil on kibbutz existence without palaverHis pin-point descriptions of individuals and spaces…are pared to perfection in order to resonate. His people twitch with life -- Tom Adair * Scotsman *
Oz is a quiet, plain, compelling writer -- Alan Taylor * Herald *
Deeply affecting chamber piece… -- Ben Lawrence * Daily Telegraph *
Engaging collection… Beautiful, spare prose -- Lucy Popescu * Independent on Sunday *
Presents us...with a complex and melancholic vision of people stuggling to transcend their individuality for the sake of mundanely idealistic goals -- Michael Sayeau * Times Literary Supplement *
All Israeli life is here, rendered in loving detail * Mail on Sunday *

Born in Jerusalem in 1939, Amos Oz was the internationally acclaimed author of many novels and essay collections, translated into over forty languages, including his brilliant semi-autobiographical work, A Tale of Love and Darkness. His last novel, Judas, was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017 and won the Yasnaya Polyana Foreign Fiction Award. He 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 died in December 2018.

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ISBN 13	9780099581475
ISBN 10	0099581477
Title	Between Friends
Author	Amos Oz
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2014-06-05
Number of pages	208
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