Rhyming Life and Death

A master class in interlocking character sketches, and a fable on the themes of sex, death and writing pitched somewhere between the fictional universes of JM Coetzee and Milan Kundera * Guardian *
Delightful…a meditation, on the art of writing, the relationship between literature and life, between life and death…the work of a master. A book you are likely to return to * Scotsman *
Oz writes with fluency and a sly humour * Daily Mail *
A playful and meditative examination of old age, literary posterity and the juxtaposition between literature and real life * Metro *
Beautifully balanced between humour and sorrow * Literary Review *
In this slim yet weighty new novel, Oz explores the sparring between reality and fantasy, shedding light on the mysterious inner workings of the creative process itself, as if presenting an X-ray of an author’s mind at work – Anita Sethi * Indepedent on Sunday *
Read this book. When you are done, read it again. Each time you’ll find something different, I promise * BookMunch *

Born in Jerusalem in 1939, Amos Oz was the internationally acclaimed author of many novels and essay collections, translated into over forty languages, including his brilliant semi-autobiographical work, A Tale of Love and Darkness. His last novel, Judas, was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017 and won the Yasnaya Polyana Foreign Fiction Award. He received several international awards, including the Prix Femina, the Israel Prize, the Goethe Prize, the Frankfurt Peace Prize and the 2013 Franz Kafka Prize. He died in December 2018.

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