Imprint: Vintage
Published: 04/02/2010
ISBN: 9780099521020
Length: 160 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 9mm x 129mm
Weight: 133g
RRP: £9.99
An unnamed author waits in a bar in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night. He is there to give a reading of his work but as he sits, bored, he begins to conjure up the life stories of the people he meets. Later, when the reading is done he asks a woman for a drink. She declines and the author walks away, only to climb the steps to her flat, later that night. Or does he?
In Amos Oz's beguiling, intriguing story the reader never really knows where reality ends and invention begins...
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 04/02/2010
ISBN: 9780099521020
Length: 160 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 9mm x 129mm
Weight: 133g
RRP: £9.99
A master class in interlocking character sketches, and a fable on the themes of sex, death and writing pitched somewhere between the fictional universes of JM Coetzee and Milan Kundera
Delightful...a meditation, on the art of writing, the relationship between literature and life, between life and death...the work of a master. A book you are likely to return to
Oz writes with fluency and a sly humour
A playful and meditative examination of old age, literary posterity and the juxtaposition between literature and real life
Beautifully balanced between humour and sorrow