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Published: 1 September 2010
ISBN: 9781409075417
Imprint: Vintage Digital
Format: EBook
Pages: 160

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Contemporary Fiction

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Rhyming Life and Death

Amos Oz

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Reality and fiction blend in an ingenious short novel from the celebrated author of A Tale of Love and Darkness - witty, elegiac, playful and sexy

An unnamed author waits in a bar in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night. He is there to give a reading of his work but as he sits, bored, he begins to conjure up the life stories of the people he meets, not least Ricky, an equally bored but seductive waitress. Later, when the reading is underway, he weaves stories around the audience and panel before asking the professional reader for a drink. She declines and the Author walks away, only to climb the steps to her flat later that night. Or does he?

In Amos Oz’s beguiling, intriguing story the reader hardly knows where reality ends and invention begins…

Pub date: 1 September 2010
ISBN: 9781409075417
Imprint: Vintage Digital
Format: EBook
Pages: 160

Categories:

Contemporary Fiction

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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 Rhyming Life and Death

“Delightful...a meditation, on the art of writing, the relationship between literature and life, between life and death...the work of a master. A book you are likely to return to'”

Scotsman

“'Oz writes with fluency and a sly humour'”

Daily Mail

“'A playful and meditative examination of old age, literary posterity and the juxtaposition between literature and real life'”

Metro

“'Beautifully balanced between humour and sorrow'”

Literary Review

“In this slim yet weighty new novel, Oz explores the sparring between reality and fantasy, shedding light on the mysterious inner workings of the creative process itself, as if presenting an X-ray of an author's mind at work”

Anita Sethi, Indepedent on Sunday

“Read this book. When you are done, read it again. Each time you'll find something different, I promise.”

BookMunch

“'A master class in interlocking character sketches, and a fable on the themes of sex, death and writing pitched somewhere between the fictional universes of JM Coetzee and Milan Kundera'”

Guardian