Amos Oz launches new novel

2007 Man Booker International contender launches eagerly anticipated novel

19 February 2009

Amos Oz, the internationally acclaimed author and contender for the Man Booker International Prize in 2007, has launched today (19 February 2009) a new novel -Rhyming Life and Death. The novel centres around 8 hours in the life of the Author (unnamed), a literary celebrity in his forties, who is in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night to give a reading.

Publishers Chatto & Windus describe the novel as "a gem of a work by a master, about writing, reading, growing old and the elusive chimera of literary posterity."

Oz is celebrated for his many novels and essay collections, translated into over 30 languages around the world. His most recent work was his semi-autiobiographical work, A Tale of Love and Darkness. As well as being nominated for the Man Booker International Prize, he has also received several international awards, including the Prix Femina, the Israel Prize and the Frankfurt Peace Prize. He lives in Arad, Israel.

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