Product Description
Judas
Author: Amos Oz
Format: Paperback
Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2017
Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2018
The Israeli master's exceptional final novel
Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017
Shmuel - a young, idealistic student - has abandoned his studies in Jerusalem, taking a live-in job as a companion to a cantankerous old man. But Shmuel quickly becomes obsessed with the taciturn Atalia, a woman of enchanting beauty, who also lives in the house.
As the household's tangled, tragic past becomes apparent, so too does story behind the birth of the state of Israel. Journeying back into the deep past, Judas is a love story like no other by a master storyteller at the height of his powers.
'A hero of mine, a moral as well as literary giant' — Simon Schama
'One of his boldest works of all' — Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times
'Amos Oz...brought so much beauty, so much love, and a vision of peace to our lives. Please hold him in your hearts and read his books' — Natalie Portman
Judas is the first novel selected for the Amos Oz reading circle established by Natalie Portman.
About the Author
Born in Jerusalem in 1939, Amos Oz was the internationally acclaimed author of many novels and essay collections, translated into over forty languages, including his brilliant semi-autobiographical work, A Tale of Love and Darkness. His last novel, Judas, was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017 and won the Yasnaya Polyana Foreign Fiction Award. He 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 died in December 2018.
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