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He also comments on related issues--the Gaza pullout, Yasser Arafat's death, and the war in Iraq--in an extended interview at the end of the book. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe brilliant clarity of these essays, coupled with Oz's ironic sense of humor in illuminating the serious, breathes new life into this old debate. Oz argues that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not a war of religion or cultures or traditions, but rather a real estate dispute--one that will be resolved not by greater understanding, but by painful compromise. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFresh, insightful, and inspiring, How to Cure a Fanatic brings a new voice of sanity to the cacophony on Israeli-Palestinian relations--a voice no one can afford to ignore.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Amos Oz is the voice of sanity coming out of confusion.\"\u003cb\u003e--Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Prize-winning author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The special nature of these two lucid, thoughtful essays lies in their compelling argumentation backed by the singular authority of the writer.\"\u003cb\u003e--Ira Katznelson, Columbia University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366073467103,"sku":"9780691148632","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/wspW8HFUlD9780691148632.webp?v=1789080756"},{"product_id":"in-the-land-of-israel-paperback","title":"In the Land of Israel - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"An exemplary instance of a writer using his craft to come to grips with what is happening politically and to illuminate certain aspects of Israeli society that have generally been concealed by polemical formulas.\" --\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNotebook in hand, Amos Oz traveled throughout Israel and the West Bank in the early 1980s to talk with workers, soldiers, religious zealots, aging pioneers, new immigrants, desperate Arabs, and visionaries, asking them questions about Israel's past, present, and future. What he heard is set down here in those distinctive voices, alongside Oz's observations and reflections. A classic insider's view of a land whose complex past and troubled present make for an uncertain future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Oz's vignettes . . . wondrously re-create whole worlds with an economy of words.\" --\u003cem\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn exemplary instance of a writer using his craft to come to grips with what is happening politically and to illuminate certain aspects of Israeli society that have generally been concealed by polemical formulas. \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eNotebook in hand, Amos Oz traveled throughout Israel and the West Bank in the early 1980s to talk with workers, soldiers, religious zealots, aging pioneers, new immigrants, desperate Arabs, and visionaries, asking them questions about Israel s past, present, and future. What he heard is set down here in those distinctive voices, alongside Oz s observations and reflections. A classic insider s view of a land whose complex past and troubled present make for an uncertain future. \u003cbr\u003e Oz s vignettes . . . wondrously re-create whole worlds with an economy of words. \u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAMOS OZ was born in Jerusalem in 1939. He is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including his acclaimed memoir A Tale of Love and Darkness, which was an international bestseller and a recipient of the National Jewish Book Award.\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368286781663,"sku":"9780156481144","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/09X1NMiniO9780156481144.webp?v=1789125192"},{"product_id":"elsewhere-perhaps-paperback","title":"Elsewhere, Perhaps - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A generous imagination at work. [Oz's] language, for all of its sensuous imagery, has a careful and wise simplicity.\" --\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSituated only two miles from a hostile border, Amos Oz's fictional community of Metsudat Ram is a microcosm of the Israeli frontier kibbutz. There, held together by necessity and menace, the kibbutzniks share love and sorrow under the guns of their enemies and the eyes of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Immensely enjoyable.\" --\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369131213023,"sku":"9780156284752","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/6Wq9frZJXh9780156284752.webp?v=1789139217"},{"product_id":"a-perfect-peace-paperback","title":"A Perfect Peace - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Oz's strangest, riskiest, and richest novel.\" --\u003cem\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIsrael, just before the Six-Day War. On a kibbutz, the country's founders and their children struggle to come to terms with their land and with each other. The messianic father exults in accomplishments that had once been only dreams; the son longs to establish an identity apart from his father; the fragile young wife is out of touch with reality; and the gifted and charismatic \"outsider\" seethes with emotion. Through the interplay of these brilliantly realized characters, Oz evokes a drama that is chillingly, strikingly universal. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[Oz is] a peerless, imaginative chronicler of his country's inner and outer transformations.\" --\u003cem\u003eIndependent \u003c\/em\u003e(UK)","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369556771039,"sku":"9780156716833","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/K7FhPSun8V9780156716833.webp?v=1789143377"},{"product_id":"black-box-paperback-1","title":"Black Box - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeven years after their divorce, Ilana breaks the bitter silence with a letter to Alex, a world-renowned authority on fanaticism, begging for help with their rebellious adolescent son, Boaz. One letter leads to another, and so evolves a correspondence between Ilana and Alex, Alex and Michel (Ilana's Moroccan husband), Alex and his Mephistophelian Jerusalem lawyer--a correspondence between mother and father, stepfather and stepson, father and son, each pleading his or her own case. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe grasping, lyrical, manipulative, loving Ilana has stirred things up. Now, her former husband and her present husband have become rivals not only for her loyalty but for her son's as well. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Box \u003c\/i\u003eis a record of passion, an ingenious, witty, feeling novel of contemporary life. Amos Oz at his novelistic, human, and poetic best.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeven years after their divorce, Ilana breaks the bitter silence with a letter to Alex, a world-renowned authority on fanaticism, begging for help with their rebellious adolescent son, Boaz. One letter leads to another, and so evolves a correspondence between Ilana and Alex, Alex and Michel (Ilana s Moroccan husband), Alex and his Mephistophelian Jerusalem lawyer a correspondence between mother and father, stepfather and stepson, father and son, each pleading his or her own case. \u003cbr\u003eThe grasping, lyrical, manipulative, loving Ilana has stirred things up. Now, her former husband and her present husband have become rivals not only for her loyalty but for her son s as well. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Box \u003c\/i\u003eis a record of passion, an ingenious, witty, feeling novel of contemporary life. Amos Oz at his novelistic, human, and poetic best. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmos Oz\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Jerusalem in 1939. 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Shmuel Ash, a biblical scholar, is adrift in his young life when he finds work as a caregiver for a brilliant but cantankerous old man named Gershom Wald. There is, however, a third, mysterious presence in his new home. Atalia Abravanel, the daughter of a deceased Zionist leader, a beautiful woman in her forties, entrances young Shmuel even as she keeps him at a distance. Piece by piece, the old Jerusalem stone house, haunted by tragic history and now home to the three misfits and their intricate relationship, reveals its secrets. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] magnificent novel . . . Oz pitches the book's heartbreak and humanism perfectly from first page to last.\"--\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Scintillating . . . 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This book is both richly panoramic and intensely personal . . . one of the most enchanting and deeply satisfying books that I have read in many years.--Robert Alter, \u003ci\u003e The New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTragic, comic, and utterly honest, \u003ci\u003eA Tale of Love and Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history. \u003cbr\u003eIt 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. The story of an adolescent whose life has been changed forever by his mother's suicide when he was twelve years old. The story of a man who leaves the constraints of his family and its community of dreamers, scholars, and failed businessmen to join a kibbutz, change his name, marry, have children. 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This superb collection of essays offers Oz's cogent views on Israel's offensive into Lebanon in 1982; fanaticism of all stripes; the PLO; Israeli terrorism; the new militarism and the growing intolerance toward the Arab population in Israel; Jewish attitudes toward the Holocaust, and its misappropriation by the right and left alike; Claude Lanzmann's film Shoah; the dream of Zionism and its failures; and much more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs well as being one of Israel s preeminent writers of fiction, Amos Oz was one of the first voices of conscience in Israel to advocate the creation of a Palestinian state and has been a leading figure of the Peace Now movement since 1977. 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