Judas

Judas

<DIV><B>International Bestseller<BR />  <BR /> Winner of the International Literature Prize<BR />  <BR /> Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize<BR /><BR /> A <I>New York Times </I>Editors’ Choice</B><BR />  <BR /> “[A] magnificent novel . . . Oz pitches the book’s heartbreak and humanism perfectly from first page to last.” — <I>New York Times Book Review</I><BR />  <BR /> “Scintillating . . . An old-fashioned novel of ideas that is strikingly and compellingly modern.” — <I>Observer</I><BR />  <BR /> Jerusalem, 1959. 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. There is, however, a third, mysterious presence in his new home. 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. 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.<BR /><BR /> 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, <I>Judas</I> is Amos Oz’s most powerful novel in decades. <BR />  <BR /> “Oz has written one of the most triumphant novels of his career.” —<I> Forward</I><BR />  <BR /> “A [big] beautiful novel . . . Funny, wise, and provoking.” — <I>Times </I>(UK) <DIV><DIV><DIV> </DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>