Recommendations from our site
“This book is just a joy. It’s beautifully written. It’s a memoir, not a diary. It’s written much later and he’s looking back over his life. He wrote a lot of novels, but this is, I think, his best book by far.” Read more...
Simon Sebag Montefiore, Historian
“I have to tell you this is a spectacularly good book. I could have chosen any number of Oz novels but preferred this recent memoir for its portrayal of the documentary reality of growing up in Israel in the earliest days of the Jewish state. It is set in Palestine just after the war before the Jewish state. His book makes the place seem real. Very little reality is absorbed from Israel and Palestine. It is always filtered through expectation and prejudice. And that includes the people who visit every day, the diasporas of both communities. It’s one of the reasons it is an unsolvable problem because the diaspora communities are incapable of seeing the situation through any kind of real or truthful perception.” Read more...
Michael Goldfarb, Journalist
