In the summer of 1989, at Tel-Kedar, a small settlement in the Negev Desert, the long time love affair between Theo, a sixty-year-old civil engineer, and Noa, a much younger school teacher, is slowly disintegrating. When a pupil of Noa's dies under difficult circumstances, the couple and the entire town are thrown into turmoil. With characteristic subtlety and brilliance, Amos Oz tells a wry and tender story of frustrated ambition and love which is never quite fulfilled - bringing together stormy intrigue in a small community with gentle humour and an intimate anatomy of a relationship.
ISBN: | 9780099496014 |
Publication date: | 5th September 1996 |
Author: | Amos Oz |
Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Vintage Publishing |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 208 pages |
Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |