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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 920 EAN: 9780156032520 ISBN: 015603252X Label: Harvest Books Manufacturer: Harvest Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 560 Publication Date: November 01, 2005 Publisher: Harvest Books Studio: Harvest Books Related Items:
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 Rating:  - The Eternal Jewish MotherAmos Oz's A Tale of Love and Darkness is a memoir of his life and the life of his family up until the time of his mother's suicide at the age of 38 in the early 1950s. Oz's mother's suicide, never treated fictionally in his other work (as far as I can recall) is treated here with great care and thoroughness: there is anger, guilt, shame, sadness, loss, a sense of regret, and penetrating understanding. Without a doubt the book is strongest when Oz discusses his mother and her family. His mother, ... Read More Rating:  - A beautiful and moving memoirThis is a beautiful and moving memoir from a sensitive and humanistic writer of great skill and style. The reader will feel that he or she is personally experiencing growing up with the author in the most modest and simple circumstances, in the young State of Israel, from before statehood and into its early years, getting to know as friends and neighbors some of its intellectual leaders who were the writer's family members and friends. The book is a sheer delight, and highly recommended. Rating: - history and biographyThis mixture of biography with the history of the birth and growth of Israel is a wonderful, warm , and poignant tale--well worth one's time. Rating: - Superior AutobiographyThis memoir by the Israeli novelist Amoz Oz is a fascinating depiction of both European and Israeli Jews. Although the author was born in Israel, his parents and relatives were all European Jews displaced by the events leading up to World War II.The graphic depiction of what anti-semitism does to an individual explains the need for a Jewish state more fully than any essay could, and the history of the first war against the Jews by the Arabs, aided openly by the British army which then controlled Palestine, ... Read More Rating: - A lived reading experience/the act of memory itselfPearls of wisdom, interspersed with lovingly told family stories, including the horrors of loss and ongoing pain, and the history of a nation and people. Regretfully, these trite phrases don't do justice to what Oz has created in this memoir. This book is multi-layered in a way that seems to replicate the very act of memory itself, as past events show and return to told memory, through the scrim of the story at hand. It's a book to read and live with and it is an honor to be able to spend some time with ... Read More 
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