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Book Synopsis''Evocative and penetrating. Oz handles his narrative with great agility' Sunday Times
One day a man may just pick up and walk out. What he leaves behind stays behind. What''s left behind has nothing to stare at but his back
In the winter of 1965, Yonaton Lifshitz decided to leave the kibbutz on which he was born, and his sterile marriage, to start a new life. But as he engineers his escape, the arrival of Azariah Gitlin, a keen new recruit, brings about a painful reconciliation of their different destinies in a society struggling with changing realities.
Trade ReviewThe assurance of a master... diverse and ironical * Guardian *
Evocative and penetrating... Oz handles his narrative with great agility * Sunday Times *
A peerless imaginative chronicler of his country's inner and outer transformations * Independent *
An exquisite thinker... Oz is a rare blast of sanity and intelligence * Observer *
Amos Oz's most powerful work * New York Times *
