Bücher der Reihe Harvest in Translation

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year"[To Know a Woman has] the powerful undertow of myth . . . A rich and affecting novel." - New York TimesFollowing the accidental death of his wife, Israeli secret service agent Yoel Ravid retires to the suburbs with his daughter, mother, and mother-in-law. After a lifetime of uncovering other people's secrets, he is forced to look back on his own: the desolate enigma of his wife's life and death, his years of service to the state, the riddle of his daughter's behavior. Amos Oz infuses Yoel's story with poetry, humor, and a vivid sense of the madness inherent in everyday existence."His language is Hebrew, his setting Israel, his message is universal." - Boston Jewish Times

"Oz's strangest, riskiest, and richest novel." -Washington Post Book WorldIsrael, just before the Six-Day War. On a kibbutz, the country's founders and their children struggle to come to terms with their land and with each other. The messianic father exults in accomplishments that had once been only dreams; the son longs to establish an identity apart from his father; the fragile young wife is out of touch with reality; and the gifted and charismatic "outsider" seethes with emotion. Through the interplay of these brilliantly realized characters, Oz evokes a drama that is chillingly, strikingly universal."[Oz is] a peerless, imaginative chronicler of his country's inner and outer transformations." -Independent (UK)

"Elusive, haunting."-New York Times Book ReviewA husband's search for his wife's lover, lost amid the turbulence of the Yom Kippur War, is the heart of this dreamlike novel. Through five different perspectives, Yehoshua explores the realities and consequences of the affair and the search, laying bare deep-rooted tensions within family, between generations, between Jews and Arabs."[A] profound study of personal and political trauma." -Daily Telegraph"Has the symmetry of an elegantly cut gem." -The New Yorker

"Anyone who has had experience of the sad and subtle ways in which human beings torment one another under license of family ties will appreciate the merits of A.B. Yehoshua's A Late Divorce." -London Review of BooksA powerful story about a family-and a country -in crisis.The father of three grown children comes back to Israel to get a divorce from his wife of many years; another woman, newly pregnant, awaits him in America. Narrated in turn by each family member-husband and wife, sons and daughter, young grandson-the drama builds to a crescendo at the traditional family gathering on Passover Eve. "Each character here is brilliantly realized . . . Thank goodness for a novel that is ambitious and humane and that is about things that really matter"-New Statesman"A master storyteller whose tales reveal the inner life of a vital, conflicted nation." - Wall Street Journal

"Seductively heady . . . Ingeniously explores the unfathomable mysteries of the heart." -Philadelphia InquirerA young Israeli intern vying for the position of surgeon learns that his internship has been terminated and he has been chosen to accompany the hospital administrator and his wife on a trip to India. There, the couple intend to retrieve their ailing daughter and bring her back to Israel. The long journey awakens urges in the young doctor that will threaten his carefully contained world. Juxtaposing Western realism and Eastern mysticism, Open Heart is an "astonishing work about love in all its forms. [One that] speaks across the barriers of translation and culture to readers everywhere" (Washington Post Book World)."At times incantatory and magical, sometimes disturbing, and often astonishing . . . Entertains the mind while it captivates the soul." -Seattle Times"Mind-expanding and poetic, a book that will stay with you long after you have turned its final page." -New York Times

Hanta rescues books from the jaws of his compacting press and carries them home. Hrabal, whom Milan Kundera calls "our very best writer today," celebrates the power and the indestructibility of the written word. Translated by Michael Henry Heim.