While working in the farming community’s cotton fields, he published his first short stories. He would complete high school at Kibbutz Hulda in central Israel, and return to the kibbutz after completing his mandatory military service in 1961.
That my life, too, would become a new song, a life as pure and straightforward and simple as a glass of water on a hot day,” he wrote in his 2002 memoir. “I secretly dreamed that one day they would take me away with them. As a teen he rebelled against his upbringing, looking to put behind what he felt was his parents’ world that glamorized Europe and the West and instead was drawn to the young pioneers who built the early state. Oz was born in Jerusalem in 1939, the son of immigrants from Eastern Europe. He won some of the literary world’s most prestigious honors, including the Goethe Prize and the French Knight’s Cross of the Legion d’honneur, received honorary doctorates and was a perennial candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature. " A Tale of Love and Darkness is one of the most wonderful books I've ever read.Oz was known around the world for his dozens of novels, essays and prose about life in Israel, including a well-received memoir, A Tale of Love and Darkness. Read it now - I promise you won't read a more brilliant book in a long, long while" - Daily Mail "A tragicomic saga of love and books, of Jewish life and immigrant life that world over, and of the universal madness of families. Farce and heartbreak, history and humanity make up this magical portrait of the artist who witnessed the birth of a nation. Oz's story dives into the saga of a Jewish love-hate affair with Europe that sweeps from Vilna and Odessa, via Poland and Prague, to Israel. And at the tragic heart of the tale is the suicide of his mother, when Amos was twelve-and-a-half years old. Caught between them is one small boy with the weight of generations on his shoulders.
He takes us on a bold, seductive journey through his childhood and adolescence, a quixotic child's eye view along Jerusalem's war-torn 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. Love and darkness are just two of the powerful forces that run through Amos Oz's extraordinary, moving story.
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