Judas
19.99 €
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Judas
19.99 €
Winter 1959/1960, Jerusalem. The eternal student Shmuel Ash, a good-natured and romantic oaf, does not know what he wants from life. One day, he sees a mysterious ad on a bulletin board about an easy job for a humanities student. Intrigued, Shmuel goes to the old Jerusalem neighborhood. In a dilapidated and ancient house, like the city itself, lives the intellectual Gershom Wald, who needs a person with whom he can conduct conversations and debates. In exchange, Shmuel is offered shelter, food and a modest allowance. The house is also inhabited by Atalia, a mysterious beauty who amazes with her icy detachment. Old Wald and Atalia are clearly connected by some secret, a past in which there are enough secrets. Shmuel, talking for hours with the old man, is timid in front of the mysterious Atalia and becomes increasingly fascinated by the topic of betrayal, to which philosophical debates often turn. He is haunted by the mysteries associated with this woman, and, delving deeper into an almost detective investigation, he learns the incredible and terrible story of Atalia and Wald. The new novel by the Israeli classic Amos Oz is about betrayal and its essence, about the dark side of Jewish-Christian relations, which have left their mark on modern Arab-Jewish history. The gentle, softly ironic prose of Amos Oz is full of internal tension, it immerses you in the mysterious atmosphere of the long-vanished old Jerusalem. This is a very personal novel by the writer, in which his philosophical, political, religious views are especially succinctly reflected - a complex, beautiful and mysterious story about how in any person, regardless of religion and political views, the dark is always combined with the light.
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