Black box
by Oz, Amos
Seven years after their divorce, Ilana breaks the bitter silence with a letter to Alex, a world-renowned authority on fanaticism, begging for help with their rebellious adolescent son, Boaz. One letter leads to another, and so evolves a correspondence between Ilana and Alex, Alex and Michel (Ilana's Moroccan husband), Alex and his Mephistophelian Jerusalem lawyer'a correspondence between mother and father, stepfather and stepson, father and son, each pleading his or her own case. The grasping, …
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- Full title :Black box / Amos Oz ; translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas De Lange in collaboration with the author.
Summary
Seven years after their divorce, Ilana breaks the bitter silence with a letter to Alex, a world-renowned authority on fanaticism, begging for help with their rebellious adolescent son, Boaz. One letter leads to another, and so evolves a correspondence between Ilana and Alex, Alex and Michel (Ilana's Moroccan husband), Alex and his Mephistophelian Jerusalem lawyer'a correspondence between mother and father, stepfather and stepson, father and son, each pleading his or her own case. The grasping, lyrical, manipulative, loving Ilana has stirred things up. Now, her former husband and her present husband have become rivals not only for her loyalty but for her son's as well.
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- Publication Date:2012.
- Edition:1st Mariner books ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication:Boston
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
Notes
Translation of: Ḳufsah sheḥorah.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (268 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0547751990, 9780547751993
- oclc:ocn854613491
- LC Classification:PJ5054.O9
- Dewey Decimal:892.4/36
Table of Contents
Front Cover -- Front Matter -- Half Title -- Books by Amos Oz -- Title -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Epigraph -- Black Box -- Back Cover -- Spine
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