The Amos Oz reader

Author(s)

• Oz, Amos
• Ben-Dov, Nitza

Bibliographic Information

The Amos Oz reader

Amos Oz ; selected and edited by Nitza Ben-Dov

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009

Other Title

Selections

Uniform Title

Selections. 2009

Note

Includes index

Contents of Works

• [1]. The Kibbutz--"An Exemplary Nonfailure"
• The Kibbutz at the Present Time (from Under This Blazing Light)
• Where the Jackals Howl (from Where the Jackals Howl)
• Way of the Wind (from Where the Jackals Howl)
• Extended Family (from Elsewhere, Perhaps)
• Secret Adaptability (from A Perfect Peace)
• [2]. Jerusalem-An Alien City
• An Alien City (from Under This Blazing Light)
• It's Cold in This Jerusalem of Yours (from My Michael)
• Whoever Moves Toward the Light Moves Toward the Holy City (from "Crusade;' in Unto Death)
• Life Nowadays Is Like a Stupid Party (from The Hill of Evil Counsel)
• A City Where All Men Are Half Prophet, Half Prime Minister (from Fima)
• [3]. In the Promised Land
• The Meaning of Homeland (from Under This Blazing Light)
• Thank God for His Daily Blessings (from In the Land of Israel)
• Yours with Great Respect and in Jewish Solidarity (from Black Box)
• And So Yael Ravid Began to Give In (from To Know a Woman)
• Hebrew Melodies (from The Slopes of Lebanon)
• [4]. In an Autobiographical Vein
• An Autobiographical Note (from Under This Blazing Light)
• Father and Son in a Search for Love (from The Same Sea)
• My Mother Was Thirty-eight When She Died (from A Tale of Love and Darkness)
• Imagining the Other Is a Deep and Subtle Human Pleasure (upon acceptance of the Goethe Prize)

• NCID: BA9046505X
• ISBN:
  • 9780156035668
• LCCN: 2008053532
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: heb
• Place of Publication: Boston
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 392 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PJ5054.O9
  • DC22 : 892.4/36
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Oz, Amos -- Translations into English