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Judas
by Amos Oz
SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE
Winner of the International Literature Prize, the new novel by Amos Oz is his first full-length work since the best-sellingA Tale of Love and Darkness.
Jerusalem, 1959. Shmuel Ash, a biblical scholar, is adrift in his young life when he finds work as a caregiver for a brilliant but cantankerous old man named Gershom Wald. There is, however, a third, mysterious presence in his new home. Atalia Abarbanel, the daughter of a deceased Zionist leader, a beautiful woman in her forties, entrances young Shmuel even as she keeps him at a distance. Piece by piece, the old Jerusalem stone house, haunted by tragic history and now home to the three misfits and their intricate relationship, reveals its secrets.
At once an exquisite love story and coming-of-age novel, an allegory for the state of Israel and for the biblical tale from which it draws its title,Judas is Amos Oz's most powerful novel in decades.
Winner of the International Literature Prize, the new novel by Amos Oz is his first full-length work since the best-sellingA Tale of Love and Darkness.
Jerusalem, 1959. Shmuel Ash, a biblical scholar, is adrift in his young life when he finds work as a caregiver for a brilliant but cantankerous old man named Gershom Wald. There is, however, a third, mysterious presence in his new home. Atalia Abarbanel, the daughter of a deceased Zionist leader, a beautiful woman in her forties, entrances young Shmuel even as she keeps him at a distance. Piece by piece, the old Jerusalem stone house, haunted by tragic history and now home to the three misfits and their intricate relationship, reveals its secrets.
At once an exquisite love story and coming-of-age novel, an allegory for the state of Israel and for the biblical tale from which it draws its title,Judas is Amos Oz's most powerful novel in decades.
FICTIONFictionHistoricalComing of AgeJewish
RELEASED2016
PUBLISHERHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
LENGTH305
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>
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Judas
by Amos Oz
SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE
Winner of the International Literature Prize, the new novel by Amos Oz is his first full-length work since the best-sellingA Tale of Love and Darkness.
Jerusalem, 1959. Shmuel Ash, a biblical scholar, is adrift in his young life when he finds work as a caregiver for a brilliant but cantankerous old man named Gershom Wald. There is, however, a third, mysterious presence in his new home. Atalia Abarbanel, the daughter of a deceased Zionist leader, a beautiful woman in her forties, entrances young Shmuel even as she keeps him at a distance. Piece by piece, the old Jerusalem stone house, haunted by tragic history and now home to the three misfits and their intricate relationship, reveals its secrets.
At once an exquisite love story and coming-of-age novel, an allegory for the state of Israel and for the biblical tale from which it draws its title,Judas is Amos Oz's most powerful novel in decades.
Winner of the International Literature Prize, the new novel by Amos Oz is his first full-length work since the best-sellingA Tale of Love and Darkness.
Jerusalem, 1959. Shmuel Ash, a biblical scholar, is adrift in his young life when he finds work as a caregiver for a brilliant but cantankerous old man named Gershom Wald. There is, however, a third, mysterious presence in his new home. Atalia Abarbanel, the daughter of a deceased Zionist leader, a beautiful woman in her forties, entrances young Shmuel even as she keeps him at a distance. Piece by piece, the old Jerusalem stone house, haunted by tragic history and now home to the three misfits and their intricate relationship, reveals its secrets.
At once an exquisite love story and coming-of-age novel, an allegory for the state of Israel and for the biblical tale from which it draws its title,Judas is Amos Oz's most powerful novel in decades.
FICTIONFictionHistoricalComing of AgeJewish
RELEASED2016
PUBLISHERHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
LENGTH305
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>
