Author

Contributions

  • Silverston, Sondra, translator - Contributor

Publication

2013 - , Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

44,750 words, Guess

Page Count

179 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780547985589
  • Open LibraryOL26921156M

Classifications

  • DDC892.4/36
  • LCCPJ5054.O9 B4613 2013
  • LCCPJ5054.O9B4613 2013

Description

In Between Friends, Amos Oz returns to the kibbutz of the late 1950s, the time and place where his writing began. These eight interconnected stories, set in the fictitious Kibbutz Yekhat, draw masterly profiles of idealistic men and women enduring personal hardships in the shadow of one of the greatest collective dreams of the twentieth century. A devoted father who fails to challenge his daughter's lover, an old friend, a man his own age; an elderly gardener who carries on his shoulders the sorrows of the world; a woman writing poignant letters to her husband's mistress--amid this motley group of people, a man named Martin attempts to teach everyone Esperanto. Each of these stories is a luminous human and literary study; together they offer an eloquent portrait of an idea and of a charged and fascinating epoch"--

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Between friends2013-01-01

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