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Also by Amos Oz:

Jews And Words, November 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Scenes From Village Life, October 2011
Hardcover

SCENES FROM VILLAGE LIFE
By: 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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On Point - October 31, 2011
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