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A Tale of Love and Darkness

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A Tale of Love and Darkness
A Tale of Love and Darkness

Intimate family epic amid a nation's birth

This is the kind of memoir people remember for how deeply human it feels: heartbreaking, witty, and startlingly alive all at once. Amos Oz turns family history into something sweeping without losing the fragile, childlike perspective at its center. If you like literary memoirs that blend personal grief with the making of a country, this will feel rich, haunting, and unforgettable.

  • National Jewish Book Award (2006)
  • Prix France Culture (2004)
  • Koret Jewish Book Award for Biography, Autobiography or Literary Study (2005)
  • Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize for Nonfiction (2005)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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by Amos Oz, Nicholas de Lange
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ISBN: 9780151008780
Authors: Amos Oz, Nicholas de Lange
Publisher: Harcourt
Date of Publication: 2004-11-15
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Biographies & Memoirs, History
Related Topics: World History, Biography, Memoir, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, Politics
Goodreads rating: 4.23
(rated by 13134 readers)

Description

Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this extraordinary memoir is at once an engrossing family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history. Amos Oz takes us on a bold journey through his childhood and adolescence—with a quixotic child's-eye view of Jerusalem's war-torn streets in the forties and fifties—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. At the heart of this moving story is the suicide of his mother when Oz was twelve and a half years old. Soon after, still a gawky adolescent, he turns his back on his father, leaves home, joins a kibbutz, and changes his name. The story covers 120 years of family history, a tale full of loneliness and loss, of laughter and farce, that moves between Russia and Jerusalem, Poland and Tel Aviv, Lithuanian and Ukrainian villages, Kibbutz Hulda on Israel's coastal plain and Arad in the Negev Desert. In search of the remote roots of his family tragedy, Oz reveals the secrets and skeletons of four generations of Chekhovian dreamers, scholars, failed businessmen, fierce women, world reformers, old-world womanizers, and rebellious black sheep. And so from the depths of sorrow in a small boy's life evolves the stunning chronicle of a people and the extraordinary story of a great writer's beginnings.
 

Intimate family epic amid a nation's birth

This is the kind of memoir people remember for how deeply human it feels: heartbreaking, witty, and startlingly alive all at once. Amos Oz turns family history into something sweeping without losing the fragile, childlike perspective at its center. If you like literary memoirs that blend personal grief with the making of a country, this will feel rich, haunting, and unforgettable.

  • National Jewish Book Award (2006)
  • Prix France Culture (2004)
  • Koret Jewish Book Award for Biography, Autobiography or Literary Study (2005)
  • Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize for Nonfiction (2005)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.