Judas

Winter 1959/1960, Jerusalem. The eternal student Shmuel Ash, a good -natured and romantic bog, does not know what he wants from life. Once on a board of ads, he sees a mysterious announcement of an unsuitable work for a gumanitarian student. The intrigued Shmuel goes to the Old Jerusalem district. In the dilapidated and ancient, like the city itself, the house lives the intellectual Gershom Vald, he needs a man with whom he could conduct conversations and disputes. In return, Shmuel is offered shelter, a table and a modest manual. Atali, a mysterious beauty, affecting her icy detachment, also lives in the house. The old Valda and Atalya are clearly connected by some secret, the past, in which there are enough secrets. Schmuel, talks with the old man for hours, robs at the mysterious Atalya and is increasingly fond of the topic of betrayal, on which philosophical disputes are curtailed. The mysteries associated with this woman do not give him rest, and, plunging deeper into an almost detective investigation, he will learn the incredible and terrible story of Atalya and Vald. The new novel of the Israeli classic Amos Oza is about betrayal and its essence, about the dark side of the Jewish-Christian relations that imposed a seal and on modern Arab-Jewish history. The delicate, soft-irony prose of Amos Oza is full of internal tension, it immerses in the mysterious atmosphere of the long-disappeared old Jerusalem. This is a very personal novel of the writer, in which his philosophical, political, religious views - a complex, beautiful and mysterious story about how in any person, regardless of religion and political views, is always combined with bright ones