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The Hill of Evil Counsel

Three Stories

Amos Oz author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:20th May '93

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'A perfect book' - Sunday Telegraph

The Hill of Evil Counsel is a fusion of history and imaginative narrative, re-creating the twilight world of Jerusalem during the fading days of the British Mandate.The Hill of Evil Counsel is a fusion of history and imaginative narrative, re-creating the twilight world of Jerusalem during the fading days of the British Mandate. In these three closely linked stories, Oz vividly evokes the stifling atmosphere of impending crisis as real personalities rub shoulders with fictional characters whose hopes and fears are hauntingly portrayed.

Oz evokes Israeli life with the same sly precision with which Chekhov evoked pre-Revolutionary Russian life * Los Angeles Times *
A marvellous ability to transport the reader into a new set of ideas, feelings and fears... The whole book is masterly * Financial Times *
A peerless imaginative chronicler of his country's inner and outer transformations * Independent *
An exquisite thinker, Oz is a rare blast of sanity and intelligence * Observer *

ISBN: 9780099747406

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 15mm

Weight: 257g

320 pages