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Where The Jackals Howl

Amos Oz author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:21st May '92

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'Oz deserves his high reputation' - Sunday Telegraph

Where the Jackals Howl is prize-winning author Amos Oz's first collection of stories. The fate of these individuals, their drives, ambitions and idiosyncrasies, are grounded by the physical and social structure of their community as Oz portrays their world as a microcosm of the wider world.

Where the Jackals Howl is prize-winning author Amos Oz's first collection of stories. On publication it received immediate critical acclaim and revealed Oz to be a master craftsman probing the emotional depths of his characters.

The lives of ordinary Israelis are set against the backdrop of community life in a Kibbutz. The fate of these individuals, their drives, ambitions and idiosyncrasies, are grounded by the physical and social structure of their community as Oz portrays their world as a microcosm of the wider world.

It rarely happens that literature offers a more profound insight into politics and culture than does news reporting. Amos Oz has performed this rare service * Times Literary Supplement *
Amos Oz makes the desert a place of jackals and miracles... A strong, beautiful, disturbing book * New York Times *
A born storyteller * Jewish Chronicle *

ISBN: 9780099982005

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 21mm

Weight: 245g

352 pages