{"product_id":"between-friends-isbn-9780544227743","title":"Between Friends","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the National Jewish Book Award: A “gorgeous, rueful collection of eight linked stories” capturing the collective dreams of Israel in the 1950s (\u003cem\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eThese eight interconnected stories, set in the fictitious Kibbutz Yekhat, draw masterful profiles of idealistic men and women enduring personal hardships in the shadow of one of the greatest collective dreams of the twentieth century. A devoted father who fails to challenge his daughter’s lover, an old friend, a man his own age; an elderly gardener who carries on his shoulders the sorrows of the world; a woman writing perversely poignant letters to her husband’s mistress.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eEach of these stories is a luminous human and literary study; together they offer an eloquent portrait of an idea, and of a charged and fascinating epoch. Award-winning writer Amos Oz, who spent three decades living on a kibbutz, is at home and at his best in this “lucid and heartbreaking” award-winning collection (\u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Oz lifts the veil on kibbutz existence without palaver. His pinpoint descriptions are pared to perfection . . . His people twitch with life.” —\u003cem\u003eThe Scotsman\u003c\/em\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, 2013 Franz Kafka Prize \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[An] intricately interwoven skein of eight new stories. . . “Between Friends” richly satisfies. . . One savors these moody miniatures of the kibbutz past (gracefully translated by Sondra Silverston) for their jazzlike variations; each elegantly underscores the uncertain fates awaiting both the lonely individual and the community.\"—\u003ci\u003eForward\u003c\/i\u003e  \"Oz traces the emotional terrain of kibbutz life in this. . . gorgeous, rueful collection of eight linked stories about life in fictional Kibbutz Yekhat. . . Written in deliberately unadorned prose (beautifully translated by Sondra Silverston), [\u003ci\u003eBetween Friends\u003c\/i\u003e] lays bare the deepest human longings.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The mind is a place Oz explores masterfully in all its contradiction, texture and heartache. \u003ci\u003eBetween Friends\u003c\/i\u003e paints the daily lives behind utopian dreams, fully realized.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNew York Daily News \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] deeply affecting chamber piece [that] draws on…the contradictory urges that lie at the heart of Israel’s psyche.\" \u003cbr\u003e—Ben Lawrence, \u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e (UK) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Oz lifts the veil on kibbutz existence without palaver. His pin-point descriptions are pared to perfection… His people twitch with life.\" \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eScotsman \u003c\/i\u003e(UK) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lucid and heartbreaking… Oz explores the always uncertain relationships between men and women, parents and children, friends and enemies, in a clear, clipped language perfectly suited to the laconic tone of the narrative and impeccably rendered into English by Sondra Silverston\" \u003cbr\u003e—Alberto Manguel, \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003e(UK) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A collection of stories….that boasts the sense, scope and unity of a novel…Breathtaking.\" \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eIrish Examiner \u003c\/i\u003e(Ireland) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A complex and melancholic vision of people struggling to transcend their individuality for the sake of mundanely idealistic goals.\" \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e (UK) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"All Israeli life is here, rendered in loving detail.\" \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday \u003c\/i\u003e(UK)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890016612581,"sku":"NP9780544227743","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780544227743.jpg?v=1730232379","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/between-friends-isbn-9780544227743","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}