Judas / Amos Oz ; translated by Nicholas de Lange.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Chotto & Windus, 2016Description: 274 pages : 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781784740511 (pbk.)
- 9781784740504 (hbk.)
- Beśorah ʻal-pi Yehudah. English
- 23 892.436 AMO 009959
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Book | Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore | 892.436 AMO 009959 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 009959 |
"First published in Hebrew as Beśorah ʻal-pi Yehudah by Keter Publishing House Ltd, in 2014"--Colophon.
"Winner of the International Literature Prize, the new novel by Amos Oz is his first full-length work since the best-selling A Tale of Love and Darkness. Jerusalem, 1959. Shmuel Ash, a biblical scholar, is adrift in his young life when he finds work as a caregiver for a brilliant but cantankerous old man named Gershom Wald. There is, however, a third, mysterious presence in his new home. Atalia Abarbanel, the daughter of a deceased Zionist leader, a beautiful woman in her forties, entrances young Shmuel even as she keeps him at a distance. Piece by piece, the old Jerusalem stone house, haunted by tragic history and now home to the three misfits and their intricate relationship, reveals its secrets. At once an exquisite love story and coming-of-age novel, an allegory for the state of Israel and for the biblical tale from which it draws its title, Judas is Amos Oz's most powerful novel in decades"--
Translated from the Hebrew.
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