Between Friends - Tapa blanda

Winner, National Jewish Book Award for Fiction

"Oz traces the emotional terrain of kibbutz life in this. . . gorgeous, rueful collection of eight linked stories about life in fictional Kibbutz Yekhat. . . Written in deliberately unadorned prose (beautifully translated by Sondra Silverston), [Between Friends] lays bare the deepest human longings."
--Chicago Tribune

"The mind is a place Oz explores masterfully in all its contradiction, texture and heartache. Between Friends paints the daily lives behind utopian dreams, fully realized."
--New York Daily News

"[A] deeply affecting chamber piece [that] draws on...the contradictory urges that lie at the heart of Israel's psyche."
--Ben Lawrence, Telegraph (UK)

"Oz lifts the veil on kibbutz existence without palaver. His pin-point descriptions are pared to perfection... His people twitch with life."
--Scotsman (UK)

"Lucid and heartbreaking... Oz explores the always uncertain relationships between men and women, parents and children, friends and enemies, in a clear, clipped language perfectly suited to the laconic tone of the narrative and impeccably rendered into English by Sondra Silverston"
--Alberto Manguel, Guardian (UK)

"A collection of stories....that boasts the sense, scope and unity of a novel...Breathtaking."
--Irish Examiner (Ireland)

"A complex and melancholic vision of people struggling to transcend their individuality for the sake of mundanely idealistic goals."
--Times Literary Supplement (UK)

"All Israeli life is here, rendered in loving detail."
--Mail on Sunday (UK)

Set in the fictitious Kibbutz Yikhat, eight interconnected stories brilliantly portray men and women who endure personal hardships in the shadow of one of the greatest collective dreams of the 20th century. 25,000 first printing.