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Product details
- ISBN 9780099754015
- Weight: 96g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 07 Aug 1997
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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‘One of the greatest prose writers in contemporary fiction’ The Times
In the last years of British rule in Jerusalem, a lonely, bookish Israeli boy befriends a British soldier in this tale of friendship in the face of enmity.
Jerusalem 1947.
British soldiers patrol the streets, and bullets and bombs are a nightly occurrence.
Caught up in the fervour and unrest against the occupying forces,12-year old Proffy dreams of being an underground fighter. But some of his dreams are less heroic.
Temptation lurks everywhere for the youth who wants to be a man – and betrayal not far behind.
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.
