Don't Call It Night
  • Published: 25 October 1996
  • ISBN: 9780099496014
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $28.00

Don't Call It Night

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'Vivid, convincing and haunting' New York Times

In the summer of 1989, at Tel-Kedar, a small settlement in the Negev Desert, the long time love affair between Theo, a sixty-year-old civil engineer, and Noa, a much younger school teacher, is slowly disintegrating. When a pupil of Noa's dies under difficult circumstances, the couple and the entire town are thrown into turmoil.

With characteristic subtlety and brilliance, Amos Oz tells a wry and tender story of frustrated ambition and love which is never quite fulfilled - bringing together stormy intrigue in a small community with gentle humour and an intimate anatomy of a relationship.
  • Published: 25 October 1996
  • ISBN: 9780099496014
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $28.00
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About the author

Amos Oz

Born in Jerusalem in 1939, Amos Oz was the internationally acclaimed author of many novels and essay collections, translated into over forty languages, including his brilliant semi-autobiographical work, A Tale of Love and Darkness. His last novel, Judas, was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017 and won the Yasnaya Polyana Foreign Fiction Award. He received several international awards, including the Prix Femina, the Israel Prize, the Goethe Prize, the Frankfurt Peace Prize and the 2013 Franz Kafka Prize. He died in December 2018.

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Praise for Don't Call It Night

Oz's sense of place brings Faulkner to mind. His quest for ideals is Tolstoyan, his hapless, decaying characters evoke thoughts of Bellow, but their intensity of feeling, their obsession with elementary issues is Dostoevskian

Sunday Telegraph

A commanding artist who ranks with the most important writers of our time

Cynthia Ozick

Oz has imposed order on a literary landscape that, at least to his overseas readers, seethes with conflict

Guardian

An elegiac, exquisite portrait of a middle-aged love affair

Independent