Black box
By: Amos Oz ; translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas De Lange in collaboration with the author
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780547747590
Subjects: FICTION / Family Life; FICTION / Contemporary Women; FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Jewish
Work titles: Ḳufsah sheḥorah
Description: Seven years after their divorce, Ilana breaks the bitter silence with a letter to Alex, a world-renowned authority on fanaticism, begging for help with their rebellious adolescent son, Boaz. One letter leads to another, and so evolves a correspondence between Ilana and Alex, Alex and Michel (Ilana’s Moroccan husband), Alex and his Mephistophelian Jerusalem lawyer—a correspondence between mother and father, stepfather and stepson, father and son, each pleading his or her own case. The grasping, lyrical, manipulative, loving Ilana has stirred things up. Now, her former husband and her present husband have become rivals not only for her loyalty but for her son’s as well. Black Box is a record of passion, an ingenious, witty, feeling novel of contemporary life. Amos Oz at his novelistic, human, and poetic best.
Notes: Translation of: Ḳufsah sheḥorah.