Don't Call it Night

Don't Call it Night

by Amos Oz (Author), Amos Oz (Author)

Synopsis

In the summer of 1989, at Tel-Kedar, a small settlement in the Negev Desert, the long time love affair between Theo, a sixty-year-old civil engineer, and Noa, a much younger school teacher, is slowly disintegrating. When a pupil of Noa's dies under difficult circumstances, the couple and the entire town are thrown into turmoil. With characteristic subtlety and brilliance, Amos Oz tells a wry and tender story of frustrated ambition and love which is never quite fulfilled - bringing together stormy intrigue in a small community with gentle humour and an intimate anatomy of a relationship.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 05 Sep 1996

ISBN 10: 0099496011
ISBN 13: 9780099496014
Book Overview: 'Vivid, convincing and haunting' - New York Times

Media Reviews
Oz's sense of place brings Faulkner to mind. His quest for ideals is Tolstoyan, his hapless, decaying characters evoke thoughts of Bellow, but their intensity of feeling, their obsession with elementary issues is Dostoevskian * Sunday Telegraph *
A commanding artist who ranks with the most important writers of our time -- Cynthia Ozick
Oz has imposed order on a literary landscape that, at least to his overseas readers, seethes with conflict * Guardian *
An elegiac, exquisite portrait of a middle-aged love affair * Independent *
Author Bio
Born in Jerusalem in 1939, Amos Oz is 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 most recent novel, Judas, was shortlisted for The Man Booker International Prize 2017. He has 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 lives in Israel and is considered a towering figure in world literature.