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Amos Oz

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Publisher's Synopsis

This novel concerns itself with the frailties and variety of human nature, and looks at the ambivalences in marriage, family, fanaticism and political terror. The novel mirrors the social, political and religious complexities of life in Israel today.;Amos Oz is one of Israel's foremost writers. Born in Jerusalem in l939, he is author of "My Michael" which was filmed, "Touch the Water, Touch the Wind", "The Hill of Evil Counsel", "In the Land of Israel", and "A Perfect Peace". He lives in Arad in Israel.

About the Publisher

Chatto & Windus

Chatto was founded in 1855 by a bookseller-publisher called John Camden Hotten. On Hotten's death, Andrew Chatto, who had worked there since he was fifteen, acquired the business with a sleeping partner, W.E. Windus. In 1917, The Hogarth Press was founded by Virginia and Leonard Woolf, and in 1946 this too came under Chatto's management. The firm published many significant writers and classics - R.L. Stevenson, Lytton Strachey, Marcel Proust, Laurie Lee, Christopher Isherwood, Rosamond Lehmann, Henry Green, Sigmund Freud and Iris Murdoch. Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate, was editorial director in the 1960s.

Book information

ISBN:	9780701132934
Publisher:	Chatto & Windus
Imprint:	Chatto & Windus
Pub date:	23 Jun 1988
DEWEY:	892.436
DEWEY edition:	19
Language:	English
Weight:	499g
Height:	190mm
Width:	130mm