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The Hill of Evil Counsel

Three Stories

Author: Amos Oz  

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'A perfect book' - Sunday Telegraph

The Hill of Evil Counsel is a fusion of history and imaginative narrative, re-creating the twilight world of Jerusalem during the fading days of the British Mandate.

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'A perfect book' - Sunday Telegraph

The Hill of Evil Counsel is a fusion of history and imaginative narrative, re-creating the twilight world of Jerusalem during the fading days of the British Mandate.

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'A perfect book' - Sunday TelegraphThe Hill of Evil Counsel is a fusion of history and imaginative narrative, re-creating the twilight world of Jerusalem during the fading days of the British Mandate. In these three closely linked stories, Oz vividly evokes the stifling atmosphere of impending crisis as real personalities rub shoulders with fictional characters whose hopes and fears are hauntingly portrayed.

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Critic Reviews

“A peerless imaginative chronicler of his country's inner and outer transformations”

Oz evokes Israeli life with the same sly precision with which Chekhov evoked pre-Revolutionary Russian life Los Angeles Times
A marvellous ability to transport the reader into a new set of ideas, feelings and fears... The whole book is masterly Financial Times
Independent
An exquisite thinker, Oz is a rare blast of sanity and intelligence Observer

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About the Author

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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Product Details

Publisher
Vintage Publishing | Vintage
Published
20th May 1993
Pages
320
ISBN
9780099747406

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