Judas

Title: Judas

Author: Amos Oz

Binding: Hardcover

EAN: 9789023492399

Condition: Good

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- New: Book is new.

Description:
In Judas, Amos Oz returns to the setting of his most successful and beloved books: mid-twentieth-century Jerusalem. Judas is a love story and a coming-of-age novel, in which Oz openly and courageously weaves the theme of betrayal.
As in A Tale of Love and Darkness, Oz combines his personal vision of Israel's history and present with a compelling plot and a brilliant writing style.

Jerusalem, the winter of 1959. Shmuel Ash decides to break off his studies (and his thesis in which he would mainly focus on the role of the mysterious Judas). At the same time, his girlfriend leaves him and it turns out that his parents can no longer support him financially. Shmuel has had enough and wants to leave Israel, but then he sees an advertisement that gives him the opportunity to stay, even though he is not allowed to tell anyone where he is. He ends up in the house of an old man, Gershom Wald. Late at night, Shmuel reads to him; they talk about Zionism and the conflict between the Jews and the Arabs. In short, they talk about God and the world. In the old man's house, Shmuel also meets the inscrutable Athaliah Abarbanel. He is immediately taken aback by the beauty and inaccessibility of this woman. Slowly he manages to unravel the secret of the relationship between the old man and Athaliah.