A Tale of Love and Darkness
- Author Amos Oz
- Narrator Stefan Rudnicki
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Run Time 23 hours and 53 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Biography: writers, Literature: history and criticism, Memoirs, Social groups: religious groups and communities.
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What to expect
Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this extraordinary memoir is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history.
It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and fifties in a small apartment crowded with books in twelve languages and relatives speaking nearly as many. His mother and father, both wonderful people, were ill-suited to each other. When Oz was twelve and a half years old, his mother committed suicide—a tragedy that was to change his life. He leaves the constraints of the family and the community of dreamers, scholars, and failed businessmen to join a kibbutz, changes his name, marries, has children, and finally becomes a writer as well as an active participant in the political life of Israel.
A story of clashing cultures and lives, of suffering and perseverance, of love and darkness.
Critics Review
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“[An] indelible memoir.”
New York Times -
“[An] ingenious work that circles around the rise of a state, the tragic destiny of a mother, [and] a boy’s creation of a new self.”
New Yorker -
“Detailed and beautiful…As he writes about himself and his family, Oz is also writing part of the history of the Jews…We are in the hands here of a capable, practiced seducer.”
Los Angeles Times -
“It is impossible to give a full account of this book’s riches.”
Washington Post Book World -
“This lyrical saga…succeeds both as a revelatory tale of the artist as young man and a gripping portrait of the young Jewish state itself.”
Miami Herald -
“One of the most enchanting and deeply satisfying books that I have read in many years.”
New Republic
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