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Reality and fiction blend in an ingenious Rothian short novel from the celebrated author of A Tale of Love and Darkness - witty but elegiac, playful and sexy but somehow deadly serious, it s about a bored writer who goes to a reading and has a brief sexual skirmish with a female reader. Or does he?

About the Author

Born in Jerusalem in 1939, Amos Oz is the internationally acclaimed author of many novels and essay collections, translated into over 30 languages, most recently his brilliant semi-autiobiographical work, A Tale of Love and Darkness. He has received several international awards, including the Prix Femina, the Israel Prize and the Frankfurt Peace Prize. He lives in Arad, Israel.

Reviews

Praise for A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS: "Every event, every factual detail, every discovery opens myriad doors to unexpected revelations...It is impossible to give a full account of this book's riches." --The Washington Post Book World
"Fascinating, beautifully written and closer to a great 19th-century novel than to the ironic minimalism of our time. No serious reader should miss this testimony from an extraordinary writer." --The Forward
"[A] consistently gracious and compassionate meditation on the birth and consciousness of a writer."--" "The Miami Herald

Praise for A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS:

"Every event, every factual detail, every discovery opens myriad doors to unexpected revelations...It is impossible to give a full account of this book's riches." --The Washington Post Book World
"Fascinating, beautifully written and closer to a great 19th-century novel than to the ironic minimalism of our time. No serious reader should miss this testimony from an extraordinary writer." --The Forward
"[A] consistently gracious and compassionate meditation on the birth and consciousness of a writer."--" "The Miami Herald