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《乡村生活图景》被公认是阿摩司•奥兹继《爱与黑暗的故事》之后小说创作的新高度，迄今已被翻译成十几种文字。
故事发生在具有百年历史的以色列乡村，日常生活的表象下掩盖着令人不安的事实：陌生人的来访打破了蔡尔尼克的平静生活，深埋心中的怨艾如潮翻涌；女医生久等外甥不至，明知一个电话就能弄清真相，却选择追至司机家中查看，在孤独中想象外甥正在前来的路上；房产中介跟随少女参观老宅，在欲望和良心的挣扎中陷入被囚地窖的危险；村长收到妻子的便条，心生疑窦，果然，妻子仿佛人间蒸发……故事中每个人都在追寻，但始终一无所获。

Set in Jerusalem at the time of the Suez crisis, this is a study of a woman's retreat from an unhappy marriage into a private world of fantasy and repressed desires. Her subsequent mental breakdown is mirrored in the local scenes of disruption and violence caused by the coming war.

In Between Friends, Amos Oz returns to the kibbutz of the late 1950s, the time and place where his writing began. These eight interconnected stories, set in the fictitious Kibbutz Yekhat, draw masterly profiles of idealistic men and women enduring personal hardships in the shadow of one of the greatest collective dreams of the twentieth century.
A devoted father who fails to challenge his daughter’s lover, an old friend, a man his own age; an elderly gardener who carries on his shoulders the sorrows of the world; a woman writing poignant letters to her husband’s mistress—amid this motley group of people, a man named Martin attempts to teach everyone Esperanto.
Each of these stories is a luminous human and literary study; together they offer an eloquent portrait of an idea and of a charged and fascinating epoch. Amos Oz at home. And at his best.