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| Midnight Convoy & Other Stories “There is some of Yizhar in every writer who has come after him,” says Amos Oz. Throughout Yizhar’s work there is a strong moral sense, an expression of his generation’s ambivalence towards its pioneering heritage. Known for his powerful lyricism and reverence for nature, Yizhar’s sensory impressions and descriptions of Israel’s landscape are unmatched. This is the only available collection of Yizhar’s shorter fiction. Paperback, ISBN 10: 1-59264-183-0 ISBN 13: 978-1-59264-183-3 C.500 pages, US$14.95, UK£9.99 CAN$19.95 Publication date: May 2007 More Info... |  |
| Preliminaries After a silence of almost 30 years since his Stories of a Plain, Yizhar reasserted his position as the greatest living master of Hebrew prose with Preliminaries. Strongly autobiographical, Preliminaries progresses frame by frame, showing a boy growing up in a Jewish farming community in Palestine and in the young city of Tel Aviv between the years 1917 and 1930... Hardcover: ISBN 10: 1-59264-190-3 ISBN 13: 978-1-59264-190-1 Pages: c.500 US$24.95 UK£14.99 CANADA $33.95 Publication date: May 2007 More Info... |  |
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