{"product_id":"9781328745491","title":"Judas","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eJudas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Amos Oz\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER and winner of the International Literature Prize. At once an exquisite love story and a coming-of-age novel, an allegory for the state of Israel and for the biblical tale from which it draws its title, \u003cem\u003eJudas\u003c\/em\u003e is one of Amos Oz’s most powerful novels.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJerusalem, 1959. Shmuel Ash, a biblical scholar, is adrift in his young life when he finds work as a caregiver for a brilliant but cantankerous old man named Gershom Wald. There is, however, a third, mysterious presence in his new home. Atalia Abravanel, the daughter of a deceased Zionist leader, a beautiful woman in her forties, entrances young Shmuel even as she keeps him at a distance. Piece by piece, the old Jerusalem stone house, haunted by tragic history and now home to the three misfits and their intricate relationship, reveals its secrets. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] magnificent novel . . . Oz pitches the book’s heartbreak and humanism perfectly from first page to last.”—\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Scintillating . . . An old-fashioned novel of ideas that is strikingly and compellingly modern.”—\u003cem\u003eObserver \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Oz has written one of the most triumphant novels of his career.”—\u003cem\u003eForward \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A [big] beautiful novel . . . Funny, wise, and provoking.”—\u003cem\u003eTimes \u003c\/em\u003e(UK)\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShort-listed for the Man Booker International Prize   A \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003eEditors' Choice \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, Paperback Row\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"[A] magnificent novel… Oz pitches the book's heartbreak and humanism perfectly from first page to last, as befits a writer who understands how vital a political role a novelist can play.\"—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"In this novel of nineteen-sixties Jerusalem, Shmuel Ash, lovelorn graduate student and lukewarm socialist, abandons his thesis ('Jewish Views of Jesus') to care for a frail, elderly Zionist living in a funeral villa. There he meets a cynical beauty who lost both her father and husband in the mid-century wars, backroom and battlefield, that defined the contours of Israeli statehood. The novel has a clear message; as Shmuel says, 'All the power in the world cannot transform someone who hates you into someone who likes you.' But Oz tempers this didactic edge by making Shmuel a hapless figure—with walking stick, inhalers, and baby-powdered beard—unimpressive to the aristocratic recluses he's stumbled among.\"—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, \"Briefly Noted\"\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"A novel of ideas...Beautifully translated by Nicholas de Lange.\"—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"Even an \u003cem\u003eannus horribilis\u003c\/em\u003e can be redeemed if it contains a new Amos Oz novel.\"—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Forward\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"An intellectual biography of Judas, a tender narrative of love and heartbreak, and a thoughtful consideration of the stakes and limits of Israeli politics.”—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Christian Century\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"Oz’s prose, as captured in English by de Lange, illuminates an exquisite coming-of-age romance that also manages to comment on the origins of Zionism, the perception of the Israeli left and what it truly means to be a traitor.\"—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eJewish Telegraphic Agency\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"Like Oz's nonfiction \"A Tale of Love and Darkness,\" \"Judas\" grapples with big, historical matters for which there are no simple answers: the founding of Israel and the founding of Christianity. Both remain rich subjects to explore today.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eSt. Louis Post-Dispatch, \u003c\/em\u003e\"Best Books of 2016\"\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"A scintillating novel...Many-layered, thought-provoking and – in its love story – delicate as a chrysalis, this is an old-fashioned novel of ideas that is strikingly and compellingly modern.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eObserver\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   “Oz has written one of the most triumphant novels of his career.”\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Forward \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e   “\u003cem\u003eJudas\u003c\/em\u003e is a vibrant specimen of a nearly extinct species, the novel of ideas...A fascinating coming-of-age story.\"—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"The novel gives a finely vivid and sympathetic picture of a Jerusalem (and an Israel) that has largely disappeared…This book is compassionate as well as painfully provocative, a contribution to some sort of deeper listening to the dissonances emerging from deep within the politics and theology of Israel and Palestine.”\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   “A very absorbing addition to [Oz’s] remarkable oeuvre.”\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e     “A masterpiece: command of the word, mastery of construct, the ability to stimulate all the senses of the reader.”—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLa Repubblica\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   “Challenging, complex and strangely compelling… The ideas at the novel’s centre have g\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781328745491\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"HarperVia","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41164295274702,"sku":"9781328745491","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9781328745491.jpg?v=1651649991","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781328745491","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}