Sylvie Cohen Knihy

Tragic, comic and incomparable: an autobiographical epic and a comedie humaine for our times, which is both the portrait of an artist and the story of the birth of a nation, spanning several generations and moving with them from Russia, Lithuania, the Ukraine, to Jerusalem. Love and darkness are just two of the powerful forces that run through Amos Oz's extraordinary, moving story. He takes us on a seductive journey through his childhood and adolescence, along Jerusalem's wartorn streets in the 1940s and '50s, and into the infernal marriage of two kind, well-meaning people: his fussy, logical father, and his dreamy, romantic mother. Caught between them is one small boy with the weight of generations on his shoulders. And at the tragic heart of the story is the suicide of his mother, when Amos was twelve-and-a-half years old. Oz's story dives into 120 year of family history and paradox, the saga of a Jewish love-hate affair with Europe that sweeps from Vilna and Odessa, via Poland and Prague, to Israel. Farce and heartbreak, history and humanity make up this magical portrait of the artist who saw the birth of a nation, and came through its turbulent life as well as his own. over.

Hlboká a podrobná správa o matke Ore, naplnenej strachom o syna, je zároveň aj autorovou spoveďou, jeho dúfaním v záchranu svojho vlastného syna, ktorý v čase, keď autor knihu písal, bojoval v Libanone: „Mal som pocit – alebo skôr želanie – že kniha, ktorú píšem ho môže ochrániť.“ Keď sa Orin syn Ofer rozhodne pokračovať vo vojenskej službe, Ora odmieta sedieť doma a čakať na zlé správy. Rozhodne sa odísť do hôr a podarí sa jej tam dotiahnuť aj svojho priateľa z mladosti Avrama. Prostredníctvom rozhovorov s Avramom sa dozvedáme o ich spoločnej minulosti, o pekle, ktorým si Avram prešiel, o jej rodine, o „plnosti života“, o jej hlbokých túžbach aj sklamaniach, bolestiach aj radostiach. Zisťujeme, že životy Avrama, Ilana - Orinho bývalého manžela - a Ory sú prepojené viac, ako sa na prvý pohľad zdá. Kniha vypovedá o zložitých rozhodnutiach v ťažkých životných podmienkach krajiny, kde je strach o vlastný život na dennom poriadku, kde rodičia nedokážu svoje deti uchrániť pred hrôzou vojny. Grossman vykreslil neuveriteľne plastický obraz Ory, nielen ako matky, ale aj ako ženy túžiacej po naplnení vo vzťahu.

Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as a novel that "broke all the barriers...sexually explicit yet dense with biblical allusions and psychological insight," Love Life unbuttoned Hebrew literature and spent four months as Israel's number one best-seller. What begins as a story of a young married woman's turbulent affair with an older man rapidly devolves into a feverish, lyrical crash course in the anatomy of obsession. When Yaara meets Aryeh, her father's boyhood friend, she is instantly drawn to his impassive and archly assured presence. It is not long before she forsakes her devoted and well-meaning husband for the powerful, mysterious older man who seems to embody all that she lacks: will, strength, and the key to her parents' inaccessible pasts. They embark on a heated affair that soon spirals toward the destructive as Yaara finds that the things in Aryeh that attract her also repel her with equal intensity. With shocking immediacy, Shalev lays bare Yaara's struggle to navigate extreme terrain ranging from the sublime to the grotesque, the sacred to the profane, the liberating to the all-consuming. Love Life is cerebral, seductive, provocative, and profound.

213pages. 21x14x2cm. Broché.