Judas: A Novel by Amos Oz || Jewish Historical-Fiction Novels

Judas: A Novel by Amos Oz || Jewish Historical-Fiction Book || Fiction Books on Jewish Mythology || Award Winning Novels || Popular Literature

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER || WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE PRIZE

At once an exquisite love story and a coming-of-age novel, an allegory for the state of Israel and for the biblical tale from which it draws its title, Judas is one of Amos Oz's most powerful novels.

"[A] magnificent novel . . . Oz pitches the book's heartbreak and humanism perfectly from first page to last."
- New York Times Book Review

"Scintillating . . . An old-fashioned novel of ideas that is strikingly and compellingly modern."
- Observer

"Oz has written one of the most triumphant novels of his career."
- Forward

"A [big] beautiful novel . . . Funny, wise, and provoking."
- Times (UK)

Jerusalem, 1959. Shmuel Ash, a biblical scholar, is adrift in his young life when he finds work as a caregiver for a brilliant but cantankerous old man named Gershom Wald. There is, however, a third, mysterious presence in his new home. Atalia Abravanel, the daughter of a deceased Zionist leader, a beautiful woman in her forties, entrances young Shmuel even as she keeps him at a distance.

Piece by piece, the old Jerusalem stone house, haunted by tragic history and now home to the three misfits and their intricate relationship, reveals its secrets.