International Bestseller Winner of the International Literature Prize Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize A New York Times Editors\' Choice A] magnificent novel . -- Times (UK).
Funny, wise, and provoking. . . -- Forward A big] beautiful novel .
Oz has written one of the most triumphant novels of his career.
At once an exquisite love story and a coming-of-age novel, an allegory for the state of Israel and for the biblical tale from which it draws its title, Judas is Amos Oz\'s most powerful novel in decades.
Piece by piece, the old Jerusalem stone house, haunted by tragic history and now home to the three misfits and their intricate relationship, reveals its secrets.
Atalia Abravanel, the daughter of a deceased Zionist leader, a beautiful woman in her forties, entrances young Shmuel even as she keeps him at a distance.
There is, however, a third, mysterious presence in his new home.
Shmuel Ash, a biblical scholar, is adrift in his young life when he finds work as a caregiver for a brilliant but cantankerous old man named Gershom Wald. -- Observer Jerusalem, 1959.
An old-fashioned novel of ideas that is strikingly and compellingly modern. . . -- New York Times Book Review Scintillating .
Oz pitches the book\'s heartbreak and humanism perfectly from first page to last. . .
International Bestseller Winner of the International Literature Prize Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize A New York Times Editors\' Choice A] magnificent novel
