Rhyming Life and Death
by Amos Oz
An ingenious, witty, behind-the-scenes novel about eight hours in the life of an author.
A literary celebrity is in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night to give a reading from his new book.While the obligatory inane questions ("Why do you write? What is it like to be famous? Do you write with a pen or on a computer?) are being asked and answered, his attention wanders and he begins to invent lives for the strangers he sees around him. Among them are Yakir Bar-Orian Zhitomirski, a self-styled literary guru; Tsefania Beit-Halachmi, a poet (whose work provides the novel's title);and Rochele Reznik, a professional reader, with whom the Author has a brief but steamy sexual skirmish; to say nothing of Ricky the waitress, the real object of his desire. One life story builds on another--and the author finds himself unexpectedly involved with his creations.
A literary celebrity is in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night to give a reading from his new book.While the obligatory inane questions ("Why do you write? What is it like to be famous? Do you write with a pen or on a computer?) are being asked and answered, his attention wanders and he begins to invent lives for the strangers he sees around him. Among them are Yakir Bar-Orian Zhitomirski, a self-styled literary guru; Tsefania Beit-Halachmi, a poet (whose work provides the novel's title);and Rochele Reznik, a professional reader, with whom the Author has a brief but steamy sexual skirmish; to say nothing of Ricky the waitress, the real object of his desire. One life story builds on another--and the author finds himself unexpectedly involved with his creations.
FictionLiteraryPsychological
RELEASED2009
PUBLISHERHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
LENGTH117
LANGUAGEEN
Amos Oz (hebreo, עָמוֹס עוֹז; Jerusalén, 4 de mayo de 1939), nacido Amos Klausner, es un escritor, novelista y periodista israelí, considerado como uno de los más importantes escritores contemporáneos en hebreo. Premio Israel de Literatura (1988); Premio Goethe de Literatura (2005) por su libro autobiográfico *Una historia de amor y oscuridad*; y candidato varios años consecutivos al Premio Nobel de Literatura. Fue uno de los fundadores del movimiento pacifista israelí *Shalom Ajshav*. Es profesor de Literatura en la Universidad Ben-Gurión de Beer Sheba, en el Néguev y miembro de la Academia Europea de Ciencias y Artes. En 2007 recibió el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras. **Fuente**: <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Oz">Wikipedia</a>
Rhyming Life and Death
by Amos Oz
An ingenious, witty, behind-the-scenes novel about eight hours in the life of an author.
A literary celebrity is in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night to give a reading from his new book.While the obligatory inane questions ("Why do you write? What is it like to be famous? Do you write with a pen or on a computer?) are being asked and answered, his attention wanders and he begins to invent lives for the strangers he sees around him. Among them are Yakir Bar-Orian Zhitomirski, a self-styled literary guru; Tsefania Beit-Halachmi, a poet (whose work provides the novel's title);and Rochele Reznik, a professional reader, with whom the Author has a brief but steamy sexual skirmish; to say nothing of Ricky the waitress, the real object of his desire. One life story builds on another--and the author finds himself unexpectedly involved with his creations.
A literary celebrity is in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night to give a reading from his new book.While the obligatory inane questions ("Why do you write? What is it like to be famous? Do you write with a pen or on a computer?) are being asked and answered, his attention wanders and he begins to invent lives for the strangers he sees around him. Among them are Yakir Bar-Orian Zhitomirski, a self-styled literary guru; Tsefania Beit-Halachmi, a poet (whose work provides the novel's title);and Rochele Reznik, a professional reader, with whom the Author has a brief but steamy sexual skirmish; to say nothing of Ricky the waitress, the real object of his desire. One life story builds on another--and the author finds himself unexpectedly involved with his creations.
FictionLiteraryPsychological
RELEASED2009
PUBLISHERHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
LENGTH117
LANGUAGEEN
Amos Oz (hebreo, עָמוֹס עוֹז; Jerusalén, 4 de mayo de 1939), nacido Amos Klausner, es un escritor, novelista y periodista israelí, considerado como uno de los más importantes escritores contemporáneos en hebreo. Premio Israel de Literatura (1988); Premio Goethe de Literatura (2005) por su libro autobiográfico *Una historia de amor y oscuridad*; y candidato varios años consecutivos al Premio Nobel de Literatura. Fue uno de los fundadores del movimiento pacifista israelí *Shalom Ajshav*. Es profesor de Literatura en la Universidad Ben-Gurión de Beer Sheba, en el Néguev y miembro de la Academia Europea de Ciencias y Artes. En 2007 recibió el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras. **Fuente**: <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Oz">Wikipedia</a>
