To Know a Woman [antikvár]

'There's a reckless, heady courage about Oz's writing, the way he discards conventional storytelling in the interests of close examination of ideas. He says things that are usually left unsaid, such as the victory the living feel over the dead, even over the most beloved dead: " Yoel was ashamed of the secret joy he sometimes derived from the thought that Ivria's death meant her defeat". Everything he writes seems to reveal a truth that hitherto has remained secret' Sunday Times 'A writer of extraordinary perception and of a warm humanity, which never slides into sentimentality and never dodges judgment. His dialogue shines with life and he evokes the feel of the physical world, the shimer of light in the dawn or at evening, wonderfully well. The result is a book which not only has a firm morál structure, one which poses and explores fundamental questions of humán nature and of obligation, but alsó sparkles with vividly realised renderings of the details of daily life. It is very good indeed' Allan Massie, Scotsman