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Amos Oz's Reading List

The Israeli author, whose most recent novel is “Judas,” would like to meet Chekhov, if only to gossip with him. Gossip, after all, is “a distant cousin of stories and novels,” although they are “embarrassed by this member of their family.”

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By the Book: Amos Oz (2016)

NYT By the Book column (2016-11-23).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Five Seasons
A. B. Yehoshua · Buy on Amazon
"I am rereading it now with awe, in tears, and with admiration. I can't help shuddering at the thought that rather often life imitates literature."
Lenin's Kisses
Yan Lianke · Buy on Amazon
"A fierce, funny, painful and playful novel by a great Chinese writer. It is much more than just a poignant, daring political parody."
Cover of Winesburg, Ohio
Winesburg, Ohio
Sherwood Anderson · Buy on Amazon
"Winesburg, Ohio taught me that sometimes the more provincial a story is, the more universal it may become."
Cover of Stalin
Stalin
Simon Sebag Montefiore · Buy on Amazon
Cover of Kafka
Kafka
Reiner Stach · Buy on Amazon
Nikolai Gogol
Vladimir Nabokov · Buy on Amazon
Cover of A Tale of Love and Darkness
A Tale of Love and Darkness
Amos Oz · Buy on Amazon
"To President Obama I would give, as a farewell present, with admiration, my Tale of Love and Darkness."

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