Unto Death: Crusade and Late Love (2 Novellas) - Softcover

Oz, Amos

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156931702 ISBN 13: 9780156931700

Publisher: Mariner Books, 1978

Synopsis

“Brilliant and insistent . . . The prose is sharp as a cameo, simple yet compelling, smoky, precise, lustrous, eerie.” — Boston Sunday Globe

Here Amos Oz captures the atmosphere of hatred in which Jews have lived, died, and struggled for understanding.

In Crusade, a band of soldiers journeys toward the Holy Land, killing any Jews they encounter; but soon the Crusaders face their own reckoning, as disease and deprivation take their toll.

Late Love portrays an aged lecturer in modern Israel with paranoid visions of the destruction of his people at the hands of the Soviets. He is out of touch with a younger and saner generation, but knows they must be warned.

“Powerfully written, with subtlety and flagrance delicately balanced.” — Austin American-Statesman

About this title

About the Author:

AMOS OZ (1939 – 2018) was born in Jerusalem. He was the recipient of the Prix Femina, the Frankfurt Peace Prize, the Goethe Prize, the Primo Levi Prize, and the National Jewish Book Award, among other international honors. His work has been translated into forty-four languages. 

Language Notes:

Text: English, Hebrew (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0156931702
• ISBN 13: 9780156931700
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176