The Amos Oz reader / selected and edited by Nitza Ben-Dov. -- Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
    392 p. -- (Mariner books)

The Amos Oz Reader draws on Oz's entire body of work, loosely grouped into four themes: the kibbutz, the city of Jerusalem, the idea of a "promised land," and his own life story. Included are excerpts from his celebrated novels, among them Where the Jackals Howl, A Perfect Peace, My Michael, Fima, Black Box, and To Know a Woman. Nonfiction is represented by selections from Under This Blazing Light, The Slopes of Lebanon, In the Land of Israel, and Oz's masterpiece, A Tale of Love and Darkness. Robert Alter, a noted Hebrew scholar and translator, has provided an illuminating introduction.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction — by Robert Alter
  The Kibbutz — "an exemplary non-failure"
• The Kibbutz at the Present Time ( from Under This Blazing Light -- an essay) /  3-6
• Where the Jackals Howl (from Where the Jackals Howl -- a story) / 7-24
• The Way of the Wind (from Where the Jackals Howl -- a story) / 25-46
• An Extended Family (from Elsewhere, Perhaps) / 47-73
• Secret Adaptability (from A Perfect Peace) / 74-102
  Jerusalem — An Alien City
• An Alien City (from Under This Blazing Light -- an essay) / 105-110
• It's Cold in this Jerusalem of Yours (from My Michael) / 111-147
• Whoever Moves toward the Light Moves toward the Holy City (from Crusade) / 148-172
• Life Nowadays is like a Stupid Party (from The Hill of Evil Counsel --a novella) / 173-196
• A City where All Men are Half Prophet, Half Prime Minister (from Fima) / 197-232
  In the Promised Land
• The Meaning of Homeland (from Under This Blazing Light -- an essay) / 235-252
• Thank God for His Daily Blessing (from In the Land of Israel -- epilogue) / 253-269
• Yours with Great Respect and in Jewish Solidarity (from Black Box) / 270-306
• And So Yoel Ravid Began to Give In (from To Know a Woman) / 307-333
• Hebrew Melodies (from The Slopes of Lebanon -- prologue) / 334-353
  In an Autobiographical Vein
• An autobiographical note (from Under This Blazing Light — an essay) / 357-361
• Father and Son in a Search for Love (from The Same Sea) / 362-363
• My Mother was Thirty-Eight when She Died (from A Tale of Love and Darkness) / 364-378
• Imagining the Other is a Deep and Subtle Human Pleasure (Goethe Prize Speech) / 379-386
  Index
  Credits