Editions

Rhyming Life and Death

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099521020

  • Length: 160  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 9mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 133g

  • RRP: £9.99

Rhyming Life and Death

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

  • ISBN: 9780099521020

  • Length: 160  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 9mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 133g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • "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"

    Guardian

  • "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"

    Scotsman

  • "Oz writes with fluency and a sly humour"

    Daily Mail

  • "A playful and meditative examination of old age, literary posterity and the juxtaposition between literature and real life"

    Metro

  • "Beautifully balanced between humour and sorrow"

    Literary Review

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About the Author

Amos Oz

Born in Jerusalem in 1939, Amos Oz is the internationally acclaimed author of many novels and essay collections, translated into over 30 languages, including recently his brilliant semi-autobiographical work, A Tale of Love and Darkness. He has received several international awards, including the Prix Femina, the Israel Prize, the Goethe Prize,the Frankfurt Peace Prize and the 2013 Franz Kafka Prize. He lives in Israel.

Amos Oz

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Where To Start Reading Amos Oz's Books

Amos Oz was one of Israel’s greatest authors – a novelist, essayist, political activist, intellectual and soldier. From Judas, picked by Natalie Portman for her inaugural book circle which she started in the wake of his recent death, to My Michael, his breakthrough novel, we’ve picked five of Oz's books to introduce you to this great writer.

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