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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Three stories in which history and imaginative narrative intertwine to re-create the world of Jerusalem during the last days of the British Mandate. no reviews | add a review
Three stories of "sensuous prose and indelible imagery" that re-create the world of Jerusalem during the last days of the British Mandate (The New York Times). Refugees drawn to Jerusalem in search of safety are confronted by activists relentlessly preparing for an uprising, oblivious to the risks. Meanwhile, a wife abandons her husband, and a dying man longs for his departed lover. Among these characters lives a boy named Uri, a friend and confidant of several conspirators who love and humor him as he weaves in and out of all three stories. The Hill of Evil Counsel is "as complex, vivid, and uncompromising as Jerusalem itself" (The Nation). "Oz evokes Israeli life with the same sly precision with which Chekhov evoked pre-Revolutionary Russian life." --Los Angeles Times No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)892.436Literature Literature of other languages Middle Eastern languages Jewish, Israeli, and Hebrew Hebrew fiction 1947–2000LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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