Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this bestselling and critically acclaimed new work by 'one of Israel's most gifted and prolific authors' (Helen Epstein, The Forward) is at once a family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer ...

Seven years after their divorce, Ilana breaks the bitter silence with a letter to Alex, a world-renowned authority on fanaticism, begging for help with their rebellious adolescent son, Boaz. One letter leads to another, and so evolves...

Probably Oz's most popular novel, MY MICHAEL tells the story of Hannah Gonen, a 30-year-old woman married to a geologist named Michael. Over the years, as Hannah's relationship with Michael begins, develops, and deteriorates, we see h...

Winner, National Jewish Book Award"[A] gorgeous, rueful collection . . . that lays bare the deepest human longings." — Chicago Tribune In Between Friends, Amos Oz returns to the kibbutz of the late 1950s, the time and pla...

In this “extraordinary novel from a great and true voice of our time” (Washington Post), a teenage drug overdose throws a closely knit Negev Desert settlement into turmoil - and tests the limits of a precarious love affair...

Internationally acclaimed novelist Amos Oz grew up in war-torn Jerusalem, where as a boy he witnessed firsthand the poisonous consequences of fanaticism. In two concise, powerful essays, the award-winning author offers unique insight ...

International Bestseller  Winner of the International Literature Prize  Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize A New York Times Editors' Choice "[A] magnificent novel . . . Oz pitches the book's heartbreak and humanis...

In this deft, masterly book, Amos Oz turns his attention away from his family—the subject of the internationally acclaimed A Tale of Love and Darkness—and toward his profession, writing. The plot: eight hours in the life of an aut...

In the village of Tel Ilan, something is off kilter. An elderly man complains to his daughter that he hears the sound of digging under his house at night. Could it be his tenant, a young Arab? But then the tenant hears the mysterious ...

Three stories in which history and imaginative narrative intertwine to re-create the world of Jerusalem during the last days of the British Mandate. A book "as complex, vivid and uncompromising as Jerusalem itself" (The Nati...

Albert Danon, a widower still grieving for his wife, develops an ambiguous relationship with his son's girlfriend, much to the chagrin of a woman his own age who loves him. Oz's novel eschews his usual political themes to explore matt...

This superb collection of essays offers Oz's cogent views on Israel's offensive into Lebanon in 1982; fanaticism of all stripes; the PLO; Israeli terrorism; the new militarism and the growing intolerance toward the Arab population in ...

As an Israeli secret service agent, Yoel Ravid's ability to sense the truth made him invaluable. Now widowed and retired, he lives with his mother, his mother-in-law, his daughter, and the haunting memory of his wife. A New York Times...

Oz has crafted an intricate tale of people constantly seeking escape from a hostile world, an escape symbolized on its highest level by the watchmaker Pomeranz, a mathematician and musician. By the power of his music, he causes the ar...

Two novellas showing the atmosphere of hatred in which Jews must live, die, and struggle for rationality both historically and in the present. Woodcuts by Jacob Pins. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Oz's first book—beautifully repackaged— is a disturbing and moving collection of short stories about kibbutz life.   Each of the eight stories in this volume grips the reader from the first line. Each conveys the tension and in...