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The Hill of Evil Counsel
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 892.436
EAN: 9780156402750
ISBN: 0156402750
Label: Harvest Books
Manufacturer: Harvest Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 210
Publication Date: March 28, 1991
Publisher: Harvest Books
Studio: Harvest Books
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Editorial Review:
Three stories in which history and imaginative narrative intertwine to re-create the world of Jerusalem during the last days of the British Mandate. A book “as complex, vivid and uncompromising as Jerusalem itself” (The Nation). Translated by Nicholas de Lange in collaboration with the Author. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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Rating: - Three brillant stories
Amos Oz tells us 3 simple stories where there is a slight connection, a little boy. That in fact isn't the most important thing in all this. The fact that the first history tell us about the start of the life of a Jew family in Jerusalem in the 40s, the second the beginning of the first signs, very slight, of resistance to the English occupation and the third a story of a sick young man and the organization of the neighbors to the eminent put out of the British. The official life of Israel seems ... Read More
Rating: - Three brillant stories
Amos Oz tells us 3 simple stories where there is a slight connection, a little boy. That in fact isn't the most important thing in all this. The fact that the first history tell us about the start of the life of a Jew family in Jerusalem in the 40s, the second the beginning of the first signs, very slight, of resistance to the English occupation and the third a story of a sick young man and the organization of the neighbors to the eminent put out of the British. The official life of Israel seems ... Read More
Rating: - israeli statehood
This is a series of three stories, all of which share the same time period and location, Jerusalem just prior to the departure of the British in 1948. The characters all encompass the same sense of destiny, fear and the unknown surrounding the birth of the tiny new nation, Israel. The strange small,large boy, Uri, is encircled by a conflicting group of newly arrived immigrants and activists seeking to establish themselves in the forth-coming battle against the British and then the Arabs. This ... Read More
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