Description
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER and winner of the International Literature Prize. At once an exquisite love story and a coming-of-age novel, an allegory for the state of Israel and for the biblical tale from which it draws its title, Judas is one of Amos Oz's most powerful novels.
Jerusalem, 1959. Shmuel Ash, a biblical scholar, is adrift in his young life when he finds work as a caregiver for a brilliant but cantankerous old man named Gershom Wald. There is, however, a third, mysterious presence in his new home. Atalia Abravanel, the daughter of a deceased Zionist leader, a beautiful woman in her forties, entrances young Shmuel even as she keeps him at a distance. Piece by piece, the old Jerusalem stone house, haunted by tragic history and now home to the three misfits and their intricate relationship, reveals its secrets.
"[A] magnificent novel . . . Oz pitches the book's heartbreak and humanism perfectly from first page to last."--New York Times Book Review
"Scintillating . . . An old-fashioned novel of ideas that is strikingly and compellingly modern."--Observer
"Oz has written one of the most triumphant novels of his career."--Forward
"A [big] beautiful novel . . . Funny, wise, and provoking."--Times (UK)
Author: Amos Oz
Publisher: Harpervia
Published: 11/21/2017
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781328745491
ISBN10: 132874549X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Jewish
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Religious | General
Jerusalem, 1959. Shmuel Ash, a biblical scholar, is adrift in his young life when he finds work as a caregiver for a brilliant but cantankerous old man named Gershom Wald. There is, however, a third, mysterious presence in his new home. Atalia Abravanel, the daughter of a deceased Zionist leader, a beautiful woman in her forties, entrances young Shmuel even as she keeps him at a distance. Piece by piece, the old Jerusalem stone house, haunted by tragic history and now home to the three misfits and their intricate relationship, reveals its secrets.
"[A] magnificent novel . . . Oz pitches the book's heartbreak and humanism perfectly from first page to last."--New York Times Book Review
"Scintillating . . . An old-fashioned novel of ideas that is strikingly and compellingly modern."--Observer
"Oz has written one of the most triumphant novels of his career."--Forward
"A [big] beautiful novel . . . Funny, wise, and provoking."--Times (UK)
Author: Amos Oz
Publisher: Harpervia
Published: 11/21/2017
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781328745491
ISBN10: 132874549X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Jewish
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Religious | General
About the Author
AMOS OZ is the internationally acclaimed author of many novels and essay collections, which have been translated into thirty languages. He is the recipient of several major international awards, including the Prix Femina, the Frankfurt Peace Prize, the Goethe Prize, the Primo Levi Prize, and the National Jewish Book Award.