I've been an admirer of Amos Oz for so long that I've almost forgotten his novels. They were wonderfully written and very intelligent, but I remember thinking that there was something elusive and held back about them. Now here is his account of his first twenty years; and it may explain a lot.

Like his fiction, it's full of humour and lovely writing. You have to love a book that says of the slow walk of Jews in Jerusalem, 'Once they had lowered their foot they were in no hurry to move it: we had waited two thousand years to gain a foothold';

Literary Review

Sep 2004

Categories

Carole Angier

Sebald’s Paradoxes

Hidden Treasure

A Committed Poet

She Wore A Yellow Nightie

Hard to Satisfy

Pomp Prodigy

Home Is Where the Danger Is

Rock Star

Brief Encounters

Not Even the Horse Was Normal

O Unlucky Man

The Soloist’s Story

In Defense of Literary Biography

To the Brink of Silence

Love & Art

Dark Nights of the Soul

Men & Women in Dark Times

At The Mind’s Limits

Age-Banding Biography

The Horror

The Dying Light

Messner’s Wrath

Saeva Indignato

Reich Rebel