Judas

<strong>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER and winner of the International Literature Prize. At once an exquisite love story and a coming-of-age novel an allegory for the state of Israel and for the biblical tale from which it draws its title <em>Judas</em> is one of Amos Oz's most powerful novels.</strong><br/><br/>Jerusalem 1959. Shmuel Ash a biblical scholar is adrift in his young life when he finds work as a caregiver for a brilliant but cantankerous old man named Gershom Wald. There is however a third mysterious presence in his new home. Atalia Abravanel the daughter of a deceased Zionist leader a beautiful woman in her forties entrances young Shmuel even as she keeps him at a distance. Piece by piece the old Jerusalem stone house haunted by tragic history and now home to the three misfits and their intricate relationship reveals its secrets. <br/><br/>[A] magnificent novel . . . Oz pitches the book's heartbreak and humanism perfectly from first page to last.--<em>New York Times Book Review </em><br/><br/>Scintillating . . . An old-fashioned novel of ideas that is strikingly and compellingly modern.--<em>Observer </em><br/> <br/>Oz has written one of the most triumphant novels of his career.--<em>Forward </em> <br/><br/>A [big] beautiful novel . . . Funny wise and provoking.--<em>Times </em>(UK)<em> </em>