A Tale of Love and Darkness
Contributors: Nicholas de Lange (Translator)
Edition: First Harvest Edition
Publisher: Harvest / Harcourt
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Orlando, FL, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780156032520
Copyright date: 2004
First sentence: I WAS BORN and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.
Description: Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, A Tale of Love and Darkness is at once a family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history.

It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and fifties, in a small apartment crowded with books in twelve languages and relatives speaking nearly as many. The story of an adolescent whose life has been changed forever by his mother's suicide when he was twelve years old. The story of a man who leaves the constraings of his family and its community of dreamers, scholars, and failed businessmen to join a kibbutz, change his name, marry, have children. The story of a writer who becomes an active participant in the political life of his nation.
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