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8216An intensely personal and moving story... HEARTWRENCHING8217 THE TIMESLove and darkness are just two of the powerful forces that run through Amos Oz8217s extraordinary moving story. He takes us on a seductive journey through his childhood and adolescence along Jerusalem8217s wartorn streets in the 1940s and 821650s and into the infernal marriage of two kind wellmeaning people his fussy logical father and his dreamy romantic mother. Caught between them is one small boy with the weight of generations on his shoulders. And at the tragic heart of the story is the suicide of his mother when Amos was twelveandahalf years old.Oz8217s story dives into the saga of a Jewish lovehate affair with Europe that sweeps from Vilna and Odessa via Poland and Prague to Israel. Farce and heartbreak history and humanity make up this magical portrait of the artist who witnessed the birth of a nation. This is a memoir like no other and one that cries out to be read and wept over.8216A tragicomic saga of love and books of Jewish life and immigrant life the world over and of the universal madness of families. Read it now I promise you won8217t read a more brilliant book in a long long while8217 DAILY MAIL8216MESMERISING8217 INDEPENDENT «
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