Perfect Peace

Oz's strangest riskiest and richest novel. --<em>Washington Post Book World</em> <p/>Israel just before the Six-Day War. On a kibbutz the country's founders and their children struggle to come to terms with their land and with each other. The messianic father exults in accomplishments that had once been only dreams; the son longs to establish an identity apart from his father; the fragile young wife is out of touch with reality; and the gifted and charismatic outsider seethes with emotion. Through the interplay of these brilliantly realized characters Oz evokes a drama that is chillingly strikingly universal. <p/>[Oz is] a peerless imaginative chronicler of his country's inner and outer transformations. --<em>Independent </em>(UK)