Black Box
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.22 (694 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 015112888X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 259 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Curtis Grindahl said The Marvelous Land of Oz!. I first became aware of Amos Oz as an Israeli intellectual of the left who is a proponent of reconcliation and peace. I knew he was a well known author, but had read none of his work until I finally picked up this fine book that delicately examines forces operating within Israel even as the . Eric Maroney said The Israeli Tolstoy. Black Box is an epistolary novel, composed of letters of the main and minor characters. Oz uses this form to great advantage. Rather than having one stable viewpoint, either from a first or third person narration, the reader gets the benefit of multiple perspectives. This allows Oz to show t. A decently written, but overall boring book. A Customer This was one of the most difficult books I have read in a long time. The difficulty had nothing to do with the writting style. It was just so difficult to have to come back to this book every day in the miserable task of having to finish it.Amos Oz can definitely write. His descriptions are
One letter leads to another, and so evolves a correspondence between Ilana and Alex, Alex and Michel (Ilana’s Moroccan husband), Alex and his Mephistophelian Jerusalem lawyer—a correspondence between mother and father, stepfather and stepson, father and son, each pleading his or her own case. Seven years after their divorce, Ilana breaks the bitter silence with a letter to Alex, a world-renowned authority on fanaticism, begging for help with their rebellious adolescent son, Boaz. Now, her former husband and her present husband have become rivals not only for her loyalty but for her son’s as well.Black Box is a record of passion, an ingenious, witty, feeling novel of contemporary life. Amos Oz at his novelistic, human, and poetic best.. The grasping, lyrical, manipulative, loving Ilana has
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. . In the hands of eminent Israeli writer Oz, this novel is more than a testament to the indivisible bonds of love and marriage; it is also an elegy to the demise of the Israeli old guard rooted in Eastern European socialism and the emergence of Sephardic and religious revisionists, and an eloquent meditation on the inevitability of death, the profound ties of parent and child, the seductive venality of money and the servitude of women. Ilana's present husband, Moroccan-born Michel, is humble and loving but also chauvinistic and faw