A Perfect Peace

Set in Israel just before the Six-Day War, this novel describes life on a kibbutz, where the founders of Israel and their children struggle to come to terms with their land and with each other. Oz’s “strangest, riskiest, and richest novel” (Washington Post Book World). Translated by Hillel Halkin. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Hailed by Publishers Weekly as "magnificent, " this moving novel is set in Israel just before the Six-Day War, and describes life on a kibbutz, where the founders of Israel and their children struggle to come to terms with their land and with each other. "(Oz's) strangest, riskiest, and richest novel."--Washington Post Book World.

Set in Israel just before the Six-Day War, this novel describes life on a kibbutz, where the founders of Israel and their children struggle to come to terms with their land and with each other. Oz’s “strangest, riskiest, and richest novel” (Washington Post Book World). Translated by Hillel Halkin. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

AMOS OZ is a world-renowned novelist and essayist whose books include My Michael, To Know a Woman, Don't Call It Night, and The Same Sea. Most recently, his memoir, A Tale of Love and Darkness, received the Koret Jewish Book Award.