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The Israeli master's exceptional final novel SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017 Shmuel - a young, idealistic student - has abandoned his studies in Jerusalem, taking a live-in job as a companion to a cantankerous old man. But Shmuel quickly becomes obsessed with the taciturn Atalia, a woman of enchanting beauty, who also lives in the house. As the household's tangled, tragic past becomes apparent, so too does story behind the birth of the state of Israel. Journeying back into the deep past, Judas is a love story like no other by a master storyteller at the height of his powers. 'A hero of mine, a moral as well as literary giant' Simon Schama 'One of his boldest works of all' Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times 'Amos Oz...brought so much beauty, so much love, and a vision of peace to our lives. Please hold him in your hearts and read his books' Natalie Portman Judas is the first novel selected for the Amos Oz reading circle established by Natalie Portman.

Thomas Heiselberg, een briljante en ambitieuze marktonderzoeker, zet in het Berlijn van de jaren dertig alles op het spel om succesvol te worden. Een nieuw bewind is aan de macht in Duitsland en Thomas beseft dat hij zijn specifieke talenten moet inzetten om te overleven in het Derde Rijk. Op datzelfde moment staat in Leningrad de jonge, joodse Aleksandra Vajsberg voor een onmenselijke keuze. Haar ouders zijn door de communistische machthebbers bestempeld als ‘vijanden van het volk’ en zijn hun leven niet meer zeker. Om haar broertjes dat lot te besparen, is Aleksandra gedwongen samen te werken met het regime dat haar familie bedreigt. Aan de vooravond van de oorlog tussen Duitsland en Rusland denken Thomas en Aleksandra allebei dat ze een persoonlijke keuze maken, maar de gevolgen ervan zijn groter dan ze ooit hadden kunnen voorzien. Goede mensen is een grootse roman waarin een van de duisterste periodes van onze geschiedenis centraal staat. Door de grote vertelkracht van Nir Baram en zijn diepgravende research is dit een uniek portret van twee gewone mensen in ongewone omstandigheden.

A darkly comic novel about the bizarre realities of life in Israel today.

Tragic, comic and incomparable: an autobiographical epic and a comedie humaine for our times, which is both the portrait of an artist and the story of the birth of a nation, spanning several generations and moving with them from Russia, Lithuania, the Ukraine, to Jerusalem. Love and darkness are just two of the powerful forces that run through Amos Oz's extraordinary, moving story. He takes us on a seductive journey through his childhood and adolescence, along Jerusalem's wartorn streets in the 1940s and '50s, and into the infernal marriage of two kind, well-meaning people: his fussy, logical father, and his dreamy, romantic mother. Caught between them is one small boy with the weight of generations on his shoulders. And at the tragic heart of the story is the suicide of his mother, when Amos was twelve-and-a-half years old. Oz's story dives into 120 year of family history and paradox, the saga of a Jewish love-hate affair with Europe that sweeps from Vilna and Odessa, via Poland and Prague, to Israel. Farce and heartbreak, history and humanity make up this magical portrait of the artist who saw the birth of a nation, and came through its turbulent life as well as his own. over.

Hurled between childhood and adulthood, between the pure and the profane, he is like a volcano of emotions and impulses. But, like his hero Houdini, Aron still struggles to escape from the trap of growing up.

Her widower, Albert, comforted by his old friend Bettine, is trying to put his life back together. Enrico's girlfriend, Dita, is being friendly and daughterly to Albert- but his responses are less platonic. Meanwhile, Dita has another lover, and a slightly repellent film producer lusts after her... číst celé

In this powerful novel by one of Israel’s most prominent writers, Momik, the only child of Holocaust survivors, grows up in the shadow of his parents’ history. Determined to exorcise the Nazi “beast” from their shattered lives and prepare for a second holocaust he knows is coming, Momik increasingly shields himself from all feeling and attachment. But through the stories his great-uncle tells him—the same stories he told the commandant of a Nazi concentration camp—Momik, too, becomes “infected with humanity.” Grossman’s masterly fusing of vision, thought, and emotion make See Under: Love a luminously imaginative and profoundly affecting work.

In a psychological and metaphysical study of a man, Yoel Ravid, a retired Israeli secret service agent who lives a simple life at home, questions his life and his relationships with women