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Between Friends
Amos Oz
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Description for Between Friends
Paperback. Ariella, unhappy in love, confides in the woman whose husband she stole. Nahum, a devoted father, can't find the words to challenge his daughter's promiscuous lover. And amid this group of people unwilling and unable to say what they mean, Martin attempts to teach Esperanto. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 201 x 13. Weight in Grams: 154.
Eight interlinked family dramas set on an Israeli kibbutz from the masterful storyteller behind A Tale of Love and Darkness
‘On the kibbutz it’s hard to know. We’re all supposed to be friends but very few really are’
Ariella, unhappy in love, confides in the woman whose husband she stole.
Nahum, a devoted father, can’t find the words to challenge his daughter’s promiscuous lover.
The old idealists deplore the apathy of the young, while the young are so used to kibbutz life that they can’t work out if they’re impassioned or indifferent. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099581475
SKU
V9780099581475
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Ref
99-42
About Amos Oz
Born in Jerusalem in 1939, Amos Oz was the internationally acclaimed author of many novels and essay collections, translated into over forty languages, including his brilliant semi-autobiographical work, A Tale of Love and Darkness. His last novel, Judas, was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017 and won the Yasnaya Polyana Foreign Fiction Award. He received several international awards, ... Read more
Reviews for Between Friends
Lucid and heartbreaking… Explores the always uncertain relationships between men and women, parents and children, friends and enemies, in a clear, clipped language perfectly suited to the laconic tone of the narrative and impeccably rendered into English by Sondra Silverston
Alberto Manguel
Guardian
Between Friends is arguably something new, a collection of stories, but so interlinked ... Read more
Alberto Manguel
Guardian
Between Friends is arguably something new, a collection of stories, but so interlinked ... Read more