The Amos Oz Reader

The Reader draws on Oz’s entire body of work loosely grouped into four themes: the kibbutz the city of Jerusalem the idea of a promised land and his own life story. Included are excerpts from his celebrated novels among them Where the Jackals Howl A Perfect Peace My Michael Fima Black Box and To Know a Woman. Nonfiction is represented by selections from Under This Blazing Light The Slopes of Lebanon In the Land of Israel and Oz’s masterpiece A Tale of Love and Darkness. Robert Alter a noted Hebrew scholar and translator has provided an illuminating introduction.