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Winner, National Jewish Book Award
“[A] gorgeous, rueful collection . . . that lays bare the deepest human longings.” — Chicago Tribune
In Between Friends, Amos Oz returns to the kibbutz of the late 1950s, the time and place where his writing began. These eight interconnected stories, set in the fictitious Kibbutz Yekhat, draw masterly profiles of idealistic men and women enduring personal hardships in the shadow of one of the greatest collective dreams of the twentieth century. A devoted father who fails to challenge his daughter’s lover, an old friend, a man his own age; an elderly gardener who carries on his shoulders the sorrows of the world; a woman writing perversely poignant letters to her husband’s mistress. Each of these stories is a luminous human and literary study; together they offer an eloquent portrait of an idea, and of a charged and fascinating epoch. Amos Oz at home. And at his best.
“Lucid and heartbreaking.” — Guardian (UK)
“All Israeli life is here, rendered in loving detail.” — Mail on Sunday (UK)
- Sales Rank: #303012 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-09-24
- Released on: 2013-09-24
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
Winner, 2013 Franz Kafka Prize
"[An] intricately interwoven skein of eight new stories. . . “Between Friends” richly satisfies. . . One savors these moody miniatures of the kibbutz past (gracefully translated by Sondra Silverston) for their jazzlike variations; each elegantly underscores the uncertain fates awaiting both the lonely individual and the community."—Forward
"Oz traces the emotional terrain of kibbutz life in this. . . gorgeous, rueful collection of eight linked stories about life in fictional Kibbutz Yekhat. . . Written in deliberately unadorned prose (beautifully translated by Sondra Silverston), [Between Friends] lays bare the deepest human longings."
—Chicago Tribune
"The mind is a place Oz explores masterfully in all its contradiction, texture and heartache. Between Friends paints the daily lives behind utopian dreams, fully realized."
—New York Daily News
"[A] deeply affecting chamber piece [that] draws on…the contradictory urges that lie at the heart of Israel’s psyche."
—Ben Lawrence, The Telegraph (UK)
"Oz lifts the veil on kibbutz existence without palaver. His pin-point descriptions are pared to perfection… His people twitch with life."
—Scotsman (UK)
"Lucid and heartbreaking… Oz explores the always uncertain relationships between men and women, parents and children, friends and enemies, in a clear, clipped language perfectly suited to the laconic tone of the narrative and impeccably rendered into English by Sondra Silverston"
—Alberto Manguel, Guardian (UK)
"A collection of stories….that boasts the sense, scope and unity of a novel…Breathtaking."
—Irish Examiner (Ireland)
"A complex and melancholic vision of people struggling to transcend their individuality for the sake of mundanely idealistic goals."
—Times Literary Supplement (UK)
"All Israeli life is here, rendered in loving detail."
—Mail on Sunday (UK)
From the Inside Flap
“Oz lifts the veil on kibbutz existence without palaver. His pinpoint descriptions are pared to perfection . . . His people twitch with life.” — Scotsman
In Between Friends, Amos Oz returns to the kibbutz of the late 1950s, the time and place where his writing began. These eight interconnected stories, set in the fictitious Kibbutz Yekhat, draw masterly profiles of idealistic men and women enduring personal hardships in the shadow of one of the greatest collective dreams of the twentieth century.
A devoted father who fails to challenge his daughter’s lover, an old friend, a man his own age; an elderly gardener who carries on his shoulders the sorrows of the world; a woman writing poignant letters to her husband’s mistress—amid this motley group of people, a man named Martin attempts to teach everyone Esperanto.
Each of these stories is a luminous human and literary study; together they offer an eloquent portrait of an idea and of a charged and fascinating epoch. Amos Oz at home. And at his best.
Translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston
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Praise for Between Friends
“Lucid and heartbreaking . . . Oz explores the always uncertain relationships between men and women, parents and children, friends and enemies, in a clear, clipped language perfectly suited to the laconic tone of the narrative and impeccably rendered into English by Sondra Silverston.” — Alberto Manguel, Guardian
“A collection of stories . . . that boasts the sense, scope and unity of a novel . . . Breathtaking.” — Irish Examiner
“A complex and melancholic vision of people struggling to transcend their individuality for the sake of mundanely idealistic goals.” — Times Literary Supplement
“All Israeli life is here, rendered in loving detail.” — Mail on Sunday
Most helpful customer reviews
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Kibbutz Life in the 1950s
By A. Silverstone
Amos Oz's latest collection of 8 interconnected short stories transports us back to the kibbutz of the 1950s. These character sketches of quirky individuals under stressful conditions serve to enlighten the human condition, while giving us a window to what life in a kibbutz was like at that time. An experiment in socialist democracy, kibbutz-wide votes decided a variety of communal and personal issues, such as who gets to go to college and even what they can study. This environment can seen very foreign, but it is this view of the daily challenges to the kibbutzniks that makes these stories so fascinating.
The story, 'Between Friends' which lends its title to the collection is about the relationship between 2 of the founders of the kibbutz when the 17-year-old daughter of one, moves in with the other, who has the reputation as quite the Casanova. Oz's stories seem to be heading to an explosion, but in fact end more like a candle going out. In a heart-rending tale, 'Little Boy', a 5-year-old is cruelly tormented by the other students (children live dormatory style from birth). causing his mild mannered father to go postal. 'Father' is a story about a student who goes to a hospital to visit his dementia-inflicted father, yet we also see the Ashkenazi-Sephardi divide.
Amos Oz paints both hope and despair, which are present in equal quantities in the kibbutz. However, in a country full of grand heroics, he makes it clear that It is the small personal triumphs that are able to power us through life.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
8 Linked poetic short stories
By Dr. J. J. Kregarman
Between Friends is a beautiful, poetic picture of kibbutz life in that period of time when the idealism that marked the creation of the kibbutz movement is dying but not yet completely dead. In the first seven short stories (or prose poems) that make up this book we meet constricted, sad, lonely people self-condemned to live in a confining environment without much hope. It is as if the kibbutz has something of a prison about it. In the last story Amos Oz introduces a member who at general meetings "often reminded us of why the kibbutz movement was founded and what its original ideals had been." In this moving final story there is some resolution of the bleakness of those that preceded it.
Between Friends is a short book. It only has 179 small pages. It is easily read in a single session. Once read, however, it is not easily forgotten. Strongly recommended.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
A dream of the kibbutz
By wogan
Amos Oz writes 8 intertwined stories of the people on a fictional kibbutz set in the 1950's during the years these communal groups were settling into their existence. Much of the behavior is not necessarily limited to those on the kibbutz, but of people anywhere. Marriages fail and many are dissatisfied with much in their surroundings.
The people and their thoughts and feelings are described well, but more than that we can see the problems and workings of the kibbutz. We see the decisions that are made - whether babies belong to their parents or the community.
Life is hard. There are no real happy stories here, only the existence and will to go on.
This is an interesting study in human behavior and the beginnings if Israel and life on the kibitzes.
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