Judas

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017. Amos Oz´s first major novel in a decade - since A Tale of Love and Darkness, which sold over 2 million copies worldwide. Shmuel - a young, idealistic student - has abandoned his studies in Jerusalem, taking a live-in job as a companion to a cantankerous old man. But Shmuel quickly becomes obsessed with the taciturn Atalia, a woman of enchanting beauty, who also lives in the house. As the household´s tangled, tragic past becomes apparent, so too does the story behind the birth of the state of Israel. Journeying back into the deep past, Judas is a love story like no other by a master storyteller at the height of his powers.