Judas

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Publisher's Synopsis

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017

Amos Oz's first major novel in a decade - since A Tale of Love and Darkness, which sold over 100,000 copies


Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the Times Literary Supplement


Shmuel, a young, idealistic student, is drawn to a mysterious handwritten note on a campus noticeboard. This takes him to a strange house, where an elderly invalid man requires a paid companion, to argue with and read to him. But there is someone else in the house, too… A woman, who is trailed by ghosts from her past. Shmuel is captivated by her, a sexual obsession which evolves into gentle love and devotion; and he is pulled to the old man, an intellectual obsession which also evolves into gentle love and devotion. Shmuel begins to uncover the house's tangled history and, in doing so, reaches an understanding that harks back not only to the beginning of the Jewish-Arab conflict, but also the beginning of Jerusalem itself - to Christianity, to Judaism, to Judas.

Set in the still-divided Jerusalem of 1959-60, Judas is an exquisite love story and coming-of-age tale, and a radical rethinking of the concept of treason. It is a novel steeped in desire and curiosity from one of Israel's greatest living writers.

Book information

ISBN: 9781784740504
Publisher: Random House
Imprint: Chatto & Windus
Pub date:
Edition: Hardback original
DEWEY: 892.436
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 274
Weight: 514g
Height: 164mm
Width: 243mm
Spine width: 29mm