β Scribed by Amos Oz
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017
Amos Oz's first major novel in a decade - since A Tale of Love and Darkness , which sold over 100,000 copies
Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the Times Literary Supplement
Shmuel, a young, idealistic student, is drawn to a mysterious handwritten note on a campus noticeboard. This takes him to a strange house, where an elderly invalid man requires a paid companion, to argue with and read to him. But there is someone else in the house, too... A woman, who is trailed by ghosts from her past. Shmuel is captivated by her, a sexual obsession which evolves into gentle love and devotion; and he is pulled to the old man, an intellectual obsession which also evolves into gentle love and devotion. Shmuel begins to uncover the house's tangled history and, in doing so, reaches an understanding that harks back not only to the beginning of the Jewish-Arab conflict, but...
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