The story of love and darkness. Lake A.

MEMERUAR Roman, the most personal book of the classic of Israeli literature. Family saga and a self -portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and a stormy era of the post -war period.

This is the story of the boy’s growing up, who grew up in the Jerusalem tormented war, in a small apartment clogged with books in twelve languages, and which was surrounded by twelve relatives. This is the story of a teenager whose life has ever changed after the death of the mother. This is the story of a young man who managed to break out of the suffocating world of the family, join the unknown new world, change his name. This is the story of a famous writer who becomes an active participant in the political life of his country.

A very warm book, where there are humorous plots and very serious reasoning about good and evil, about a person’s place in a new, forming world, about Family, parents, about the war, about the confrontation with the people-neighbor. Amos Oz, having already become a famous writer, looks at his childhood, where there was more troubles and deprivations than joy, and sees only warmth and love there.