Chatto & Windus, London, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Pale gray coloured endpapers. Blue coloured boards with silver coloured titles to the backstrip. Colour photographic dustwrapper (wraparound) with white and blue coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. "Amos Oz's new fiction presents a surreal and unsettling portal of a village in Israel. A picture of a community takes shape across seven stories, in which a group of characters appear and return. Every villager is searching for something, yet in this almost dreamlike world nothing is certain, nothing is resolved." -- from the front part of the panel blurb. translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de lange. The front free end page has been dogeared at the bottom corner. There is no other damage to describe. Full number line. Size: Octavo (standard book size). [8], 3-265, [1]pages.. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; Israel; ISBN: 0701185503. ISBN/EAN: 9780701185503. Inventory No: 0260972. . 9780701185503

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“ Scenes from Village Life is like a symphony, its movements more impressive together than in isolation. There is, in each story, a particular chord or strain; but taken together, these chords rise and reverberate, evoking an unease so strong it’s almost a taste in the mouth . . . Scenes from Village Life is a brief collection, but its brevity is a testament to its force. You will not soon forget it.”— New York Times Book Review Strange things are happening in Tel Ilan, a century-old pioneer village. A disgruntled retired politician complains to his daughter that he hears the sound of digging at night. Could it be their tenant, that young Arab? But then the young Arab hears the digging sounds too. And where has the mayor’s wife gone, vanished without a trace, her note saying “Don’t worry about me”? Around the village, the veneer of new wealth—gourmet restaurants, art galleries, a winery—barely conceals the scars of war and of past generations: disused air-raid shelters, rusting farm tools, and trucks left wherever they stopped. Scenes From Village Life is a memorable novel in stories by the inimitable Amos Oz: a brilliant, unsettling glimpse of what goes on beneath the surface of everyday life. Translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange “Finely wrought . . . Oz writes characterizations that are subtle but surgically precise, rendering this work a powerfully understated treatment of an uneasy Israeli conscience." — Publishers Weekly , starred “Informed by everything, weighed down by nothing, this is an exquisite work of art.”— The Scotsman

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Bookseller: Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 0260972
Title: Scenes from Village Life
Author: Oz, Amos
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good Condition
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0701185503
ISBN 13: 9780701185503
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 2011
Keywords: BZDB2 literature, village life, Israel Literature & Literary; Israel; Unbranded ISBN: 0701185503 EAN: 9780701185503 Oz, Amos Scenes from Village Life

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General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online

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