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The Same Sea
- Author
- Amos Oz
- Narrator
- Elijah Alexander
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 6 December 2016
- Run Time
- 4 hours 14 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
The Same Sea is Amos Oz’s most adventurous and inventive book, a novel of lyrical beauty and narrative power and the book by which he would like to be remembered. We meet the middle-aged Albert; his wife, whom he has lost to cancer; his prodigal son, who wanders the mountains of Tibet hoping to find himself; and his son’s enticing young girlfriend, with whom Albert becomes infatuated and who in turn sleeps with her boyfriend’s close friend.
In this human profusion is a fever dream of chaos and order, love and eroticism, loyalty and betrayal, and ultimately an extraordinary energy.
Critics Review
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“In a world full of hype, noise, and confusion, the simple lucidity of The Same Sea is totally unexpected.”
New York Times Book Review
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“A prose poem…At once melancholic and sensual.”
New Yorker
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“This lovely, lyrical territory, irrigated by numerous streams of consciousness, reminded me of some of the great things a novel can do.”
Chicago Tribune
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“Wise and affecting.”
Guardian (London)
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“A book of classic resonance and haunting literary beauty.”
Publishers Weekly
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“Oz takes a fresh tack in this searching playlike tale told alternately in radiant verse and meditative prose.”
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Details
- Author
- Amos Oz
- Narrator
- Elijah Alexander
- Duration
- 4 hours 14 minutes
- Release Date
- 6 December 2016
- ISBN
- 9781504766937
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
The Same Sea is Amos Oz’s most adventurous and inventive book, a novel of lyrical beauty and narrative power and the book by which he would like to be remembered. We meet the middle-aged Albert; his wife, whom he has lost to cancer; his prodigal son, who wanders the mountains of Tibet hoping to find himself; and his son’s enticing young girlfriend, with whom Albert becomes infatuated and who in turn sleeps with her boyfriend’s close friend. In this human profusion is a fever dream of chaos and order, love and eroticism, loyalty and betrayal, and ultimately an extraordinary energy.
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