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A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz Winner of the National Jewish Book AwardInternational Bestseller "[An] ingenious work that circles around the rise of a state, the tragic destiny of a mother, a boy’s creation of a new self." — The New YorkerA family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history.... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs; All Sex & Erotica | | |
Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest by Amos Oz In a gray and gloomy village, all of the animals—from dogs and cats to fish and snails—disappeared years before. No one talks about it and no one knows why, though everyone agrees that the village has been cursed. But when two children see a fish—a tiny one and just for a second—they become determined to unravel the mystery of where the... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Categories: All Children's Lit; All Sex & Erotica | | |
The Same Sea by Amos Oz The Same Sea is Amos Oz's most adventurous and inventive novel, the book by which he would like to be remembered. The cast of characters ranges from a prodigal son to a widowed father who has taken in his son's enticing young girlfriend, who in turn sleeps with her boyfriend's close friend. The author himself receives phone calls from... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: All Sex & Erotica | | |
Jews and Words (Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization) by Amos Oz, Fania Oz-Salzberger Why are words so important to so many Jews? Novelist Amos Oz and historian Fania Oz-Salzberger roam the gamut of Jewish history to explain the integral relationship of Jews and words. Through a blend of storytelling and scholarship, conversation and argument, father and daughter tell the tales behind Judaism’s most enduring names... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: All Politics, History and Current Events | | |
Between Friends by Amos Oz Winner of the National Jewish Book Award: A “gorgeous, rueful collection of eight linked stories” capturing the collective dreams of Israel in the 1950s (Chicago Tribune). These eight interconnected stories, set in the fictitious Kibbutz Yekhat, draw masterful profiles of idealistic men and women enduring personal hardships in the... Today's Bargain Price: $11.49 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Historical Fiction | | |
Scenes from Village Life by Amos Oz Linked short stories set in a town in the midst of change: “One of the most powerful books you will read about present-day Israel.” —The Jewish Chronicle “‘Scenes from Village Life’ is like a symphony, its movements more impressive together than in isolation. There is, in each story, a particular chord or strain; but taken together... Today's Bargain Price: $10.69 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
My Michael: A Novel by Amos Oz “Thoughtful, self-assured and highly sophisticated, full of the most skillful modulations of tone and texture. A modern Israeli Madame Bovary.” — The New York Times Book Review Set in 1950s Jerusalem, My Michael is the story of a remote and intense woman named Hannah Gonen and her marriage to a decent, pragmatic, but unremarkable... Today's Bargain Price: $7.45 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
Elsewhere, Perhaps by Amos Oz "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... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
Where the Jackals Howl: And Other Stories by Amos Oz The first book from the acclaimed, award-winning author of A Tale of Love and Darkness and the New York Times Notable Book, Scenes from Village Life . The Washington Post praised Israeli author Amos Oz as “one of our essential writers, laying out for our observation, in ever-increasing breadth and profundity, the mad landscape... Today's Bargain Price: $10.18 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
To Know a Woman (Harvest in Translation) by Amos Oz As an Israeli secret service agent, Yoel Ravid’s ability to sense the truth made him invaluable. Now widowed and retired, he lives with his mother, his mother-in-law, his daughter, and the haunting memory of his wife. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Translated by Nicholas de Lange. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Sex & Erotica | | |
Black Box by Amos Oz Seven years after their divorce, Ilana breaks the bitter silence with a letter to Alex, a world-renowned authority on fanaticism, begging for help with their rebellious adolescent son, Boaz. One letter leads to another, and so evolves a correspondence between Ilana and Alex, Alex and Michel (Ilana's Moroccan husband), Alex and his... Today's Bargain Price: $10.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Women's Fiction | | |
Panther in the Basement by Amos Oz From “a great and true voice of our time” (Washington Post Book World), comes this story of Proffy, a twelve-year-old living in Palestine in 1947. When Proffy befriends a member of the occupying British forces who shares his love of language and the Bible, he is accused of treason by his friends and learns the true nature of loyalty and... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Historical Fiction | | |
Fima by Amos Oz “Astonishing . . . galvanic and intoxicating.” —The New YorkerFima lives in Jerusalem, but feels he ought to be somewhere else. In his life he has had secret love affairs, good ideas, and written a book of poems that aroused expectations. He has thought about the purpose of the universe and where the country lost its way. He has felt... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
The Hill of Evil Counsel: Three Stories (Harvest Book) by Amos Oz 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... Today's Bargain Price: $9.97 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Historical Fiction | | |
Don't Call It Night (Harvest in Translation) by Amos Oz A New York Times Notable Book of the Year “A rich symphony of humanity . . . If Oz’s eye for detail is enviable, it is his magnanimity which raises him to the first rank of world authors.” — Sunday Telegraph (UK) At Tel-Kedar, a settlement in the Negev desert, the longtime love affair between Theo, a sixty-year-old civil... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
A Perfect Peace by Amos Oz This tale of a conflicted family living on a kibbutz in Israel just before the Six-Day War is “Oz's strangest, riskiest, and richest novel.” — The Washington Post Book World On a kibbutz, the country’s founders and their children struggle to come to terms with their land and with each other. The messianic father exults in... Today's Bargain Price: $14.39 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
Israel, Palestine and Peace: Essays by Amos Oz “Powerful” essays from a founder of the Peace Now movement and advocate for a two-state solution (Library Journal). The haunting poetry of [Oz's] prose and the stunning logic of his testimony make a potent mixture." —Washington Post Book World Amos Oz was one of the first voices of conscience to advocate for a two-state solution. As a... Today's Bargain Price: $10.79 Categories: All Politics, History and Current Events | | |
The Slopes of Lebanon by Amos Oz As well as being one of Israel’s preeminent writers of fiction, Amos Oz was one of the first voices of conscience in Israel to advocate the creation of a Palestinian state and has been a leading figure of the Peace Now movement since 1977. This superb collection of essays offers Oz’s cogent views on Israel’s offensive into Lebanon in... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: All Politics, History and Current Events | | |
Rhyming Life & Death: A Novel by Amos Oz Fiction and reality merge inside the mind of a famous Israeli author in this “hilarious and profound . . . slyly philosophical novel” ( Booklist ). In this novel, Amos Oz offers a prismatic portrait of the storytelling impulse, with an extended glimpse inside the mind of a celebrated, unnamed Author. On a stiflingly hot night... Today's Bargain Price: $10.79 Categories: All Humor; All Sex & Erotica | | |
Touch the Water, Touch the Wind by Amos Oz "A profusion of delightful passages couched in unfailingly lovely language." — New York Times Book Review 1939. As the Nazis advance into Poland, a Jewish mathematician and watchmaker named Pomeranz escapes into the wintry forest, leaving behind his beautiful, intelligent wife, Stefa. After the war, having evaded the concentration... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Historical Fiction | | |
Unto Death: Crusade and Late Love (2 Novellas) by Amos Oz “Brilliant and insistent . . . The prose is sharp as a cameo, simple yet compelling, smoky, precise, lustrous, eerie.” — Boston Sunday Globe Here Amos Oz captures the atmosphere of hatred in which Jews have lived, died, and struggled for understanding. In Crusade , a band of soldiers journeys toward the Holy Land, killing any Jews... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Historical Fiction | | |
Judas by Amos Oz International Bestseller Winner of the International Literature Prize Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize A New York Times Editors’ Choice “[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... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Categories: All Historical Fiction; All Religious Fiction; All Romance | | |