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,…
Read More ↓Title Statements
- 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. Black Box is a record of passion, an ingenious, witty, feeling novel of contemporary life. Amos Oz at his novelistic, human, and poetic best--
Read More ↓Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2012.
- Edition:First Mariner books edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Mariner Books , Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication:Boston
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
Notes
Translation from the Hebrew of: Ḳufsah sheḥorah, originally published by Am Oved Publishers, 1987.
The Physical Object
- Description:268 pages ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780547747590, 0547747594
- oclc:ocn744294562
- LC Classification:PJ5054.O9
- Dewey Decimal:892.4/36
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