Touch the water, touch the wind

Literature & Fiction

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History & Criticism

Fontana

Three stories, set in Jerusalem at the twilight of the British mandate, dramatize the plight of refugees seeking shelter and living in the past and in fear and activists preparing for the future

Hill of Evil Counsel

Unto Death: Two Stories (Flamingo)

Contemporary

Flamingo

Touch the Water, Touch the Wind (Flamingo)

Set in Israel just before the Six-Day War, this novel describes life on a kibbutz, where the founders of Israel and their children struggle to come to terms with their land and with each other. Oz’s “strangest, riskiest, and richest novel” (Washington Post Book World). Translated by Hillel Halkin. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

A Perfect Peace (Flamingo)

"A generous imagination at work. [Oz’s] language, for all of its sensuous imagery, has a careful and wise simplicity." — New York Times Book ReviewSituated 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 love and sorrow under the guns of their enemies and the eyes of history."Immensely enjoyable." — Chicago Tribune Book World

'ELSEWHERE, PERHAPS (FLAMINGO)'

A young boy in modern-day Jerusalem trades away one possession after another, only to find something much more wonderful--his first love.

Soumchi (English and Hebrew Edition)

Children's Books

Harper&Row

In the winter of 1985 Yonaton Lifshitz decides to leave the kibbutz where he was born, and his sterile marriage, to start a new life. But the arrival of Azariah Gitlin brings about a painful reconciliation of their different destinies in a society struggling with changing realities.

A Perfect Peace

Vintage

<p>A powerful and tragicomic blend of politics and personal destiny, "Black Box" records in a series of letters the wrecked marriage of Ilana and Alex. Seven years of silence following their bitter divorce is broken when Ilana writes to Alex for help over their wayward and illiterate son, Boaz, and old emotional scars are reopened.</p>

Black Box

<p>Love and darkness are just two of the powerful forces that run through Amos Oz's extraordinary, moving story. He takes us on a seductive journey through his childhood and adolescence, along Jerusalem's war-torn streets in the 1940s and '50s, and into the infernal marriage of two kind, well-meaning people: his fussy, logical father, and his dreamy, romantic mother. Caught between them is one small boy with the weight of generations on his shoulders. And at the tragic heart of the story is the suicide of his mother, when Amos was twelve-and-a-half years old. Oz's story dives into 120 year of family history and paradox, the saga of a Jewish love-hate affair with Europe that sweeps from Vilna and Odessa, via Poland and Prague, to Israel. Farce and heartbreak, history and humanity make up this magical portrait of the artist who saw the birth of a nation, and came through its turbulent life as well as his own. This is a memoir like no other, and one that cries out to be read and wept over.</p>

Tale of Love and Darkness

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Vintage Books USA

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