My Michael

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Description

One of Amos Oz’s earliest and most famous novels, My Michael was a sensation upon its initial publication in 1968 and it has an enduring power to surprise and mesmerize.‘His characters…ride the river of history’ New Yorker ‘A beautiful work of great depth and lingers in the mind as a lyric song to his country’s people as much as a moving love story’ Arthur Miller 1950s Jerusalem.Hannah Gonen has just married and is thrilled and pained by her young well-meaning husband, Michael. Haunted by her dreams of two boys who disappeared from Jerusalem after the establishment of the state of Israel, Hannah gradually withdraws from her husband into a private world of fantasy and suppressed desires.This 2015 edition includes an updated introduction from the author.

Additional information

Weight 0.17 kg
Dimensions 1.5 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

240

Publisher

Year Published

2011-7-7

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

009952905X

About The Author

Born in Jerusalem in 1939, Amos Oz is the internationally acclaimed author of many novels and essay collections, translated into over 30 languages, including recently his brilliant semi-autobiographical work, A Tale of Love and Darkness. He has 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 lives in Israel.

He has that mixture of lyrical intensity, utter seriousness and capacity for describing life in a few words which characterises some of the best Russian classical authors

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There is no novelist writing today who catches the feeling of the moment more surely than Amos Oz

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