Published by Vintage, part of Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
£6.99
Author:
Amos Oz
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780099521020
£6.99
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EAN: 9780099521020
Published: 4 Feb 2010
An unnamed author waits in a bar in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night. He is there to give a reading of his work but as he sits, bored, he begins to conjure up the life stories of the people he meets. Later, when the reading is done he asks a woman for a drink. She declines and the author walks away, only to climb the steps to her flat, later that night. Or does he?
In Amos Oz's beguiling, intriguing story the reader never really knows where reality ends and invention begins...
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A master class in interlocking character sketches, and a fable on the themes of sex, death and writing pitched somewhere between the fictional universes of JM Coetzee and Milan Kundera
- Guardian
Delightful...a meditation, on the art of writing, the relationship between literature and life, between life and death...the work of a master. A book you are likely to return to
- Scotsman
Oz writes with fluency and a sly humour
- Daily Mail
A playful and meditative examination of old age, literary posterity and the juxtaposition between literature and real life
- Metro
Beautifully balanced between humour and sorrow
- Literary Review
In this slim yet weighty new novel, Oz explores the sparring between reality and fantasy, shedding light on the mysterious inner workings of the creative process itself, as if presenting an X-ray of an author's mind at work
- Indepedent on Sunday
Read this book. When you are done, read it again. Each time you'll find something different, I promise
- BookMunch
Born in Jerusalem in 1939, Amos Oz is the internationally acclaimed author of many novels and essay collections, translated into over 30 languages, including recently his brilliant semi-autiobiographical work, A Tale of Love and Darkness. He has received several international awards, including the Prix Femina, the Prix Mediterranee Etranger, the Israel Prize and the Frankfurt Peace Prize. He lives in Arad, Israel.
