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Unto Death

Amos Oz author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:21st May '92

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'As always Amos Oz writes beautifully - cold, clear compelling prose' - Nina Bawden, Daily Telegraph

Unto Death contains two beautiful short novels linked by death and destruction. Count Guillaume of Touron sets out on a crusade to Jerusalem and on the way he serves his God by killing any Jews he meets.

In Late Love Oz portrays an elderly professor living alone in Tel Aviv, a man neither loving nor loved.

Unto Death contains two beautiful short novels linked by death and destruction.

Crusade is set in 1096 - a year of sinister omens. Count Guillaume of Touron sets out on a crusade to Jerusalem and on the way he serves his God by killing any Jews he meets. But will the Count find the peace of mind he seeks when he faces the terrible realities of war in the Holy Land?

In Late Love Oz portrays an elderly professor living alone in Tel Aviv, a man neither loving nor loved. His last mission is to expose the plight of his fellow Russian Jews and alert the people of Israel to the conspiracy that threatens them. But nobody wants to listen...

Two beautiful short novels * Times *
There is, in his ferocious evocations of suffering and disintegration, realism and insight * Times Literary Supplement *
Outstanding * Financial Times *

ISBN: 9780099818700

Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 13mm

Weight: 171g

208 pages