The Hill of Evil Counsel

Three linked stories of Jewish people living in a Jerusalem suburb in 1947, in the last months of the British Mandate. The life events of the three viewpoint characters — two young boys and a doctor who is dying of cancer — reflect the tension and uncertainty of the political situation, but of course the author and the reader have the benefit of thirty years hindsight and know which way things are going, for good and ill. Subtle writing, in which Oz evokes the odd atmosphere of the times without hitting us over the head with history: an interesting contrast to the more explicitly autobiographical Tale of love and darkness

Terwijl de Engelsen zich klaarmaken om Palestina te verlaten bereiden de bewoners van een wijk in Jeruzalem zich voor op het onvermijdelijke. De doodzieke arts Nussbaum staat symbool voor het einde van een tijdperk.

Three stories in which history and imaginative narrative intertwine to re-create the world of Jerusalem during the last days of the British Mandate.

> Esprit, No. 19/20 (7/8) (Juillet-Août 1978), p. 144 : https://esprit.presse.fr/article/conrad-detrez/la-colline-du-mauvais-conseil-par...
> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Oz-La-colline-du-mauvais-conseil/242441