A Tale of Love and Darkness

A memoir-novel, the most personal book of a classic of Israeli literature. A family saga and a self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and the turbulent era of the post-war period. It is the story of a boy growing up in war-torn Jerusalem, in a small apartment filled with books in twelve languages, surrounded by twelve relatives. It is the story of a teenager whose life was forever changed after the death of his mother. It is the story of a young man who managed to break free from the suffocating world of his family, to merge into an unknown new world, to change his name. It is the story of a well-known writer who becomes an active participant in the political life of his country. A very warm book that contains both humorous plots and very serious reflections on good and evil, on a person's place in a new, emerging world, on family, parents, on war, on confrontation with a neighboring nation. Amos Oz, having become a famous writer, looks back at his childhood, where there was more sorrow and hardship than joy, and sees only warmth and love there.