The Slopes of Lebanon

by Amos Oz

Book Overview

As well as being one of Israel's preeminent writers of fiction, Amos Oz was one of the first voices of conscience in Israel to advocate the creation of a Palestinian state and has been a leading... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0151830908
• ISBN13: 9780151830909
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Insighful, Bold writing on complex issues

The essays in The Slopes of Lebanon, as the title suggest, are mainly Oz's reflections on the unpopular war which Israel fought in Lebanon in the early eighties. Oz has many insightful, deeply penetrating things to say about this conflict, and on many levels. Oz's political writing, unlike his prose (which is more mystical and elusive), is always sharply defined and delimited. He can state simply but with a measure of complexity an issue and then rip it to shreds. This collection reveals how deeply ethical a writer Oz is; for him, the Zionist dream is far more than the settling of a people in a land, but a moral imperative. What kind of people do Israelis want to be? He asks this question again and again, and provides insightful, deeply humane answers.