| Unto Death: Crusade and Late Love Contributor(s): Oz, Amos (Author) |
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ISBN: 0156931702 ISBN-13: 9780156931700 Publisher: Mariner Books OUR PRICE: $14.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1978 Annotation: Two novellas showing the atmosphere of hatred in which Jews must live, die, and struggle for rationality both historically and in the present. Woodcuts by Jacob Pins. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Jewish - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 77015963 |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 5.57" W x 8.53" (0.54 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Brilliant and insistent . . . The prose is sharp as a cameo, simple yet compelling, smoky, precise, lustrous, eerie." -- Boston Sunday Globe Here Amos Oz captures the atmosphere of hatred in which Jews have lived, died, and struggled for understanding. In Crusade, a band of soldiers journeys toward the Holy Land, killing any Jews they encounter; but soon the Crusaders face their own reckoning, as disease and deprivation take their toll. Late Love portrays an aged lecturer in modern Israel with paranoid visions of the destruction of his people at the hands of the Soviets. He is out of touch with a younger and saner generation, but knows they must be warned. "Powerfully written, with subtlety and flagrance delicately balanced." -- Austin American-Statesman |
Contributor Bio(s): de Lange, Nicholas: - NICHOLAS DE LANGE is a professor at the University of Cambridge and a renowned translator. He has translated Amos Oz's work since the 1960s. Oz, Amos: - "AMOS OZ (1939 - 2018) was born in Jerusalem. He was the recipient of the Prix Femina, the Frankfurt Peace Prize, the Goethe Prize, the Primo Levi Prize, and the National Jewish Book Award, among other international honors. His work has been translated into forty-four languages. " |