
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017 Amos Oz's first major novel in a decade
- since A Tale of Love & Darkness which sold over 2 million copies worldwide Shmuel
- a young idealistic student
- has abandoned his studies in Jerusalem taking a live-in job as a companion to a cantankerous old man But Shmuel quickly becomes obsessed with the taciturn Atalia a woman of enchanting beauty who also lives in the house As the household's tangled tragic past becomes apparent so too does story behind the birth of the state of Israel Journeying back into the deep past Judas is a love story like no other by a master storyteller at the height of his powers