The Hill of Evil Counsel: Three Stories

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'A perfect book' - Sunday Telegraph The Hill of Evil Counsel is a fusion of history and imaginative narrative, re-creating the twilight world of Jerusalem during the fading days of the British Mandate. In these three closely linked stories, Oz vividly evokes the stifling atmosphere of impending crisis as real personalities rub shoulders with fictional characters whose hopes and fears are hauntingly portrayed.

Born in Jerusalem in 1939, Amos Oz is the internationally acclaimed author of many novels and essay collections, translated into over forty languages, including his brilliant semi-autobiographical work, A Tale of Love and Darkness. He has received several international awards, including the Prix Femina, the Israel Prize, the Goethe Prize, the Frankfurt Peace Prize and the 2013 Franz Kafka Prize. He lives in Israel and is considered a towering figure in world literature.

Oz evokes Israeli life with the same sly precision with which Chekhov evoked pre-Revolutionary Russian life * Los Angeles Times * A marvellous ability to transport the reader into a new set of ideas, feelings and fears... The whole book is masterly * Financial Times * A peerless imaginative chronicler of his country's inner and outer transformations * Independent * An exquisite thinker, Oz is a rare blast of sanity and intelligence * Observer *