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Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon

Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon

Alter, Robert

Hardcover

Series: Jewish Lives

Biographies GeneralLiterary Figures

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ISBN10: 0300250177
ISBN13: 9780300250176
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Published: Sep 26 2023
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
An intimate portrait illuminating the life and work of Amos Oz, the award-winning Israeli writer and activist

Concise and compelling.--Benjamin Balint, Wall Street Journal

Amos Oz (1939-2018) was one of Israel's most prolific and prominent writers, as well as a regular contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was the author of dozens of novels, essay collections, and novellas written between 1965 and shortly before his death.

In this first published biography of Oz, the celebrated translator, literary critic, and biblical scholar Robert Alter explores Oz's relationship with his family, beginning with the suicide of his mother, Fania Klausner, when he was twelve years old, and goes on to review his time in Kibbutz Hulda, which he entered at fourteen following his separation from his father, Arieh Klausner; his family's right-wing Zionism; his writing career; his activism in support of a pluralistic Israel; and his work as an international lecturer.

In examining Oz's life and work, Alter brings together testimony from Oz and his circle, as well as close readings of his central works, to present the inner world and public persona of Amos Oz.

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