The Hill of Evil Counsel
Three Stories
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:20th May '93
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
'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