Unto Death: Crusade and Late Love

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 journ [...]
Visa längre beskrivning

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""