 | A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.45 This is a moving memoir of a childhood in Jerusalem during the 1940s and 1950s. The author's troubled parents are colorfully evoked as is the city itself during the Israeli War of Independence. Beautiful and moving.
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 | A Journey to the End of the Millennium - A Novel of the Middle Ages by A. B. Yehoshua
Buy new: $11.25 / Used from: $0.45 An interesting historical novel about the lives of Jews in Europe and North Africa around the year 1000 CE.
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 | The Blue Mountain by Meir Shalev
Buy used from: $10.80 A wonderful novel in the "Magic realism" style of Gabriel Marquez, deserves to be much better known outside of Israel.
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 | Someone to Run With: A Novel by David Grossman
Buy new: $11.25 / Used from: $0.66 This is a book aimed at teens that adults can profitably read -- a look into the udnerside of Israel and its teen culture and at the same time very entertaining.
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 | The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai, Newly Revised and Expanded edition (Literature of the Middle East) by Yehuda Amichai
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $3.75 Amichai is Israel's greatest modern poet and one of the greatest of the 20th century in my opinion. He is very approachable and easy to read, yet always humane, subtle and moving.
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 | Murder Duet: A Musical Case by Batya Gur
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $0.01 Batya Gur writes police procedurals based in Jerusalem. They are interesting as detective stories but the setting adds immeasurably to their interest.
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![Badenheim 1939 / by Aharon Appelfeld ; translated by Dalya Bilu - [Uniform Title: Badenhaim, 'ir nofesh. English]](http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/nav2/dp/no-image-no-ciu._SL75_V46836203_.gif) | Badenheim 1939 / by Aharon Appelfeld ; translated by Dalya Bilu - [Uniform Title: Badenhaim, 'ir nofesh. English]
Buy used from: $20.00 A representative of the older generation, Appelfeld writes dreamy, Kafkaesque stories of Jews in Europe on the brink of the Holocaust. This book is haunting.
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 | A Late Divorce by A. B. Yehoshua
Buy new: $12.82 / Used from: $2.06 I thought I needed a modern Israeli setting by Yehoshua on the list and I've chosen this tale of a father's need to understand his son's divorce. It is an interesting commentary also on Arab-Jewish relations in modern Israel.
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