Black Box
  • Published: 3 August 1993
  • ISBN: 9780099303831
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $39.99

Black Box

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'There is no novelist writing today who catches the feeling of the moment more surely than Amos Oz' Scotsman

A powerful and tragicomic blend of politics and personal destiny, Black Box records in a series of letters the wrecked marriage of Ilana and Alex. Seven years of silence following their bitter divorce is broken when Ilana writes to Alex for help over their wayward and illiterate son, Boaz, and old emotional scars are reopened.
  • Published: 3 August 1993
  • ISBN: 9780099303831
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $39.99
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About the author

Amos Oz

Born in Jerusalem in 1939, Amos Oz was the internationally acclaimed author of many novels and essay collections, translated into over forty languages, including his brilliant semi-autobiographical work, A Tale of Love and Darkness. His last novel, Judas, was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017 and won the Yasnaya Polyana Foreign Fiction Award. He received several international awards, including the Prix Femina, the Israel Prize, the Goethe Prize, the Frankfurt Peace Prize and the 2013 Franz Kafka Prize. He died in December 2018.

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Praise for Black Box

There is no novelist writing today who catches the feeling of the moment more surely than Amos Oz

Scotsman

Here is a writer unafraid of displaying the full spectrum of the emotions, and a writer - be it noted - who actually seems to have some faith left in the future

Guardian

Shows to brilliant effect the tenacity of non-love and the power of separation

Observer

A remarkably moving novel, conveying newly the tensions of human needs where politics invades sexual love

Times Literary Supplement
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