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Scenes From Village Life
Amos Oz
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
October 2011
On Sale: October 18, 2011
192 pages
ISBN: 0547483368
EAN: 9780547483368
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
A portrait of a fictional village, by one of the world’s
most admired writers In the village of Tel Ilan, something is off kilter. An
elderly man complains to his daughter that he hears the
sound of digging under his house at night. Could it be his
tenant, a young Arab? But then the tenant hears the
mysterious digging sounds too. The mayor receives a note
from his wife: "Don’t worry about me." He looks all over, no
sign of her. The veneer of new wealth around the
village—gourmet restaurants and art galleries, a
winery—cannot conceal abandoned outbuildings, disused air
raid shelters, rusting farm tools, and trucks left wherever
they stopped. Amos Oz’s novel-in-stories is a brilliant, unsettling
glimpse of what goes on beneath the surface of everyday
life. Scenes from Village Life is a parable for Israel, and
for all of us.
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