A Tale of Love and Darkness (Paperback)

from TheAmpersand

If you can call your autobiography "A Tale of Love and Darkness" and make it seem halfway appropriate, you've probably done something right. Despite its dramatic -- if well-earned -- title, Amos Oz's memoir moves along at a leisurely pace over over five-hundred plain-spoken yet wonderfully precis...

from nmele

Until now, I have never read anything by Amos Oz. After reading his memoir, I intend to read whatever I can find. This book is complex and works on many levels: as family history, as a history of the foundation of the state of Israel through a child's eyes, and as an exploration of that family hi...

from Miguelnunonave

The only single book that taught me almost everything I know about Israel and the Hebrew culture. Excellent autobiograhy. Poignant, sensitive, extremely relevant to understand the Jewish State and the illusion of creating a new world. Partly historical, partly romance, partly political - yet alwa...

from annelewis20

An extraordinary social history illuminates how this man came to write and how Israel came into being through the narrative of his family's life in Palestine which became Israel. I absolutely agree with Greg Sheridan, reviewer for the Australian newspaper, that it is the best book I have ever read.

from SqueakyChu

This book is intelligent, witty, heartfelt, appealing, and troubling. The author touches on many simple things of everyday life that make his life story unique and have affected his writing. With his superb prose, he puts readers in his own situation thereby giving a sense of what it must have fe...