New Releases by Amos

Unto Death contains two beautiful short novels linked by death and destruction. Crusade is set in 1096 - a year of sinister omens. Count Guillaume of Touron sets out on a crusade to Jerusalem and on the way he serves his God by killing any Jews he meets. But will the Count find the peace of mind he seeks when he faces the terrible realities of war in the Holy Land? In Late Love Oz portrays an elderly professor living alone in Tel Aviv, a man neither loving nor loved. His last mission is to expose the plight of his fellow Russian Jews and alert the people of Israel to the conspiracy that threatens them. But nobody wants to listen...

Three stories of "sensuous prose and indelible imagery" that re-create the world of Jerusalem during the last days of the British Mandate ( The New York Times). Refugees drawn to Jerusalem in search of safety are confronted by activists relentlessly preparing for an uprising, oblivious to the risks. Meanwhile, a wife abandons her husband, and a dying man longs for his departed lover. Among these characters lives a boy named Uri, a friend and confidant of several conspirators who love and humor him as he weaves in and out of all three stories. The Hill of Evil Counsel is "as complex, vivid, and uncompromising as Jerusalem itself" ( The Nation). "Oz evokes Israeli life with the same sly precision with which Chekhov evoked pre-Revolutionary Russian life." — Los Angeles Times

"A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book" Translation of La-da''at ishah.

A collection of the writings of Amos Oz and an appeal to end fanaticism, talk and to listen, to negotiate and seek reconciliation with the Arabs.

After a military coup, an Israeli oppositionist slips out of a terrorized Tel Aviv to journey to Ein Harod kibbutz, rumoured to be the centre of resistance. When he encounters an Arab pursuing his own itinerary to a destination beyond the kibbutz, circumstances compel them to travel together.

The lives of ordinary Israelis are set against the backdrop of community life in a Kibbutz. The fate of these individuals, their drives, ambitions and idiosyncrasies, are grounded by the physical and social structure of their community as Oz portrays their world as a microcosm of the wider world.

Novel of the microcosmic world of a kibbutz community located near the Jordanian frontier.