Where The Jackals Howl
  • Published: 3 July 1992
  • ISBN: 9780099982005
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $24.99

Where The Jackals Howl

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'Oz deserves his high reputation' - Sunday Telegraph

Where the Jackals Howl is prize-winning author Amos Oz's first collection of stories. On publication it received immediate critical acclaim and revealed Oz to be a master craftsman probing the emotional depths of his characters.

The lives of ordinary Israelis are set against the backdrop of community life in a Kibbutz. The fate of these individuals, their drives, ambitions and idiosyncrasies, are grounded by the physical and social structure of their community as Oz portrays their world as a microcosm of the wider world.
  • Published: 3 July 1992
  • ISBN: 9780099982005
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $24.99
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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 Where The Jackals Howl

It rarely happens that literature offers a more profound insight into politics and culture than does news reporting. Amos Oz has performed this rare service

Times Literary Supplement

Amos Oz makes the desert a place of jackals and miracles... A strong, beautiful, disturbing book

New York Times

A born storyteller

Jewish Chronicle
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