A Tale of Love and Darkness

Jewish Literary Criticism

Author: Amos Oz

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 war-torn 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 b….Read More

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