The Amos Oz reader

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The Amos Oz reader

Amos Oz ; selected and edited by Nitza Ben-Dov

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009

Includes index

[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)