Between friends / Amos Oz ; Translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oz, Amos, 1939-2018

Contributor:

Silverston, Sondra., Translator.

Standardized Title:

Be'in Khaverim. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kibbutzim--Fiction.

Kibbutzim.

Short stories, Hebrew--Translations into English.

Short stories, Hebrew.

Genre:

Short stories, Israeli.

Physical Description:

179 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First U.S. Edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.

Summary:

""Oz lifts the veil on kibbutz existence without palaver. His pinpoint descriptions are pared to perfection. His people twitch with life." -- Scotsman 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The king of Norway

Two women

Between friends

Father

Little boy

At night

Deir Ajloun

Esperanto.

Notes:

First published in Hebrew as Be'in Khaverim.

National Jewish Book Awards - Fiction, Winner, 2013

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Nichols fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780547985589 (hardback)

0547985584 (hardback)

OCLC:

853435891