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 by theme, setting and its rolling cast that it boasts the sense, scope and unity of a novel… The writing, tight and delicate, is technically breathtaking
Billy O'Callaghan
Irish Examiner
Oz is brilliant at compact images in which a small action expresses a complexity of unarticulated emotion
Rebecca Abrams
Financial Times
There’s a beautiful economy and simplicity to Oz’s storytelling
The Times
Oz lifts the veil on kibbutz existence without palaver. His pin-point descriptions of individuals and spaces…are pared to perfection in order to resonate. His people twitch with life
Tom Adair
Scotsman
Oz is a quiet, plain, compelling writer
Alan Taylor
Herald
Deeply affecting chamber piece…
Ben Lawrence
Daily Telegraph
Engaging collection… Beautiful, spare prose
Lucy Popescu
Independent on Sunday
Presents us...with a complex and melancholic vision of people stuggling to transcend their individuality for the sake of mundanely idealistic goals
Michael Sayeau
Times Literary Supplement
All Israeli life is here, rendered in loving detail
Mail on Sunday