Between Friends

Lucid and heartbreaking… 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

There’s a beautiful economy and simplicity to Oz’s storytelling

The Times

Oz lifts the veil on kibbutz existence without palaver. His pin-point descriptions of individuals and spaces…are pared to perfection in order to resonate. His people twitch with life

Tom Adair, Scotsman

Oz is a quiet, plain, compelling writer

Alan Taylor, Herald

Between Friends is arguably something new, a collection of stories, but so interlinked by theme, setting and its rolling cast that it boasts the sense, scope and unity of a novel… The writing, tight and delicate, is technically breathtaking

Billy O'Callaghan, Irish Examiner

Deeply affecting chamber piece…

Ben Lawrence, Daily Telegraph

Engaging collection… Beautiful, spare prose

Lucy Popescu, Independent on Sunday

Oz is brilliant at compact images in which a small action expresses a complexity of unarticulated emotion

Rebecca Abrams, Financial Times

Presents us...with a complex and melancholic vision of people stuggling to transcend their individuality for the sake of mundanely idealistic goals

Michael Sayeau, Times Literary Supplement

All Israeli life is here, rendered in loving detail

Mail on Sunday

This poignant, often heartbreaking, collection evocatively captures life in a kibbutz

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