A Tale of Love and Darkness, Amos Oz
A Tale of Love and Darkness, Amos Oz
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A Tale of Love and Darkness

Author: Amos Oz, Nicholas de Lange

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 23 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/04/2016

Synopsis

Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this extraordinary memoir is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history.It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and fifties in a small apartment crowded with books in twelve languages and relatives speaking nearly as many. His mother and father, both wonderful people, were ill-suited to each other. When Oz was twelve and a half years old, his mother committed suicide—a tragedy that was to change his life. He leaves the constraints of the family and the community of dreamers, scholars, and failed businessmen to join a kibbutz, changes his name, marries, has children, and finally becomes a writer as well as an active participant in the political life of Israel.A story of clashing cultures and lives, of suffering and perseverance, of love and darkness.

About Amos Oz

Amos Oz (1939–2018) was an Israeli journalist and author of acclaimed fiction, nonfiction, and short stories who was called one of “Israel’s most prolific writers and respected intellectuals” by the New York Times. He was awarded many honors, including the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, France’s the Legion of Honor award, the Israel Prize, the Goethe Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award in Literature, and the Heinrich Heine Prize, among others.

About Nicholas de Lange

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.

About Claire Bloom

Claire Bloom, CBE, is an English film and stage actress, known for leading roles in plays such as Streetcar Named Desire, A Doll’s House, and Long Day’s Journey into Night, along with nearly sixty films and countless television roles, during a career spanning over six decades. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 Queen’s birthday honors for services to drama.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than five thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than nine hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices in 2012.

Reviews

Goodreads review by °°°·.°·..·°¯°·._.· ʜᴇʟᴇɴ Ροζουλί Εωσφόρος ·._.·°¯°·.·° .·°°°

Η «Ιστορία αγάπης και σκότους» μπορεί να χαρακτηριστεί ως μία θριαμβευτική μαρτυρία, ένα λογοτεχνικό μνημείο για τη δημιουργία ενός νέου έθνους που γεννήθηκε μέσα στο αίμα, τράφηκε απο θηριωδίες και κατάφερε να επιβιώσει πέρα απο κάθε προσδοκία. Παράλληλα καταγράφονται οι δυνάμεις αγάπης και σκότους......more

Goodreads review by Tea

Amos Oz je najveći živi izraelski književnik... Upoznali smo se dok je pisao ovaj autobiografski roman... Bila sam mu urednik... Imala sam zadovoljstvo da se nekoliko puta sretnemo i razgovaramo... Davno sam za RTS obezbedila intervju s njim i to je bilo divno iskustvo... Nažalost nisam uspela da ga......more

Goodreads review by Joselito Honestly

There are books which, after you've read them, would give you this silent thought either that you could have written them yourself or maybe you could write something like them too someday. Then there are those books which would have the opposite effect, similar to what happened to Virginia Woolf aft......more

Quotes

"[An] indelible memoir.”

New York Times

“[An] ingenious work that circles around the rise of a state, the tragic destiny of a mother, [and] a boy’s creation of a new self.”

New Yorker

“Detailed and beautiful…As he writes about himself and his family, Oz is also writing part of the history of the Jews…We are in the hands here of a capable, practiced seducer.”

Los Angeles Times

“It is impossible to give a full account of this book’s riches.”

Washington Post Book World

“This lyrical saga…succeeds both as a revelatory tale of the artist as young man and a gripping portrait of the young Jewish state itself.”

Miami Herald

“One of the most enchanting and deeply satisfying books that I have read in many years.”

New Republic

“A moving, emotionally charged memoir of the renowned author’s youth in a newly created Israel…A boon for admirers of Oz’s work and contemporary Israeli literature in general.”

Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“This memoir/family history brims over with riches: metaphors and poetry, drama and comedy, failure and success, unhappy marriages and a wealth of idiosyncratic characters.”

Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“A warm, funny, personal history…As much as this distinguished book details the lives of the Oz family, it also captures the history of Israel.”

Library Journal

“In a memoir as effulgent as his fiction, this internationally celebrated, capaciously observant, and bedazzling writer unfurls the complex story of his fascinating family history.”

Booklist

Awards

  • National Jewish Book Award
  • A PBS NewsHour-New York Times Book Club Pick
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