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A Tale of Love and Darkness
A Tale of Love and Darkness
Author: Amos Oz
Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this extraordinary memoir is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history. — It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and fifties, in a small apartment crowded with books in twel...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780099450030
ISBN-10: 0099450038
Publication Date: 2005
Pages: 448
Rating:
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Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 2
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This is the history of Palestine, pre Israel. It was filled with humor and pathos, and gave me a better understanding of the problems in the middle east, and the history of the jews through out time, but especially since the statehood of Israel in 1948.
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This is a fascinating story of the classic Jewish struggle, but such attention to so much detail can be a bit heavy going. I am glad I read it.


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