Rhyming Life and Death

An ingenious, witty, behind-the-scenes novel about eight hours in the life of an author.

A literary celebrity is in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night to give a reading from his new book.While the obligatory inane questions ("Why do you write? What is it like to be famous? Do you write with a pen or on a computer?) are being asked and answered, his attention wanders and he begins to invent lives for the strangers he sees around him. Among them are Yakir Bar-Orian Zhitomirski, a self-styled literary guru; Tsefania Beit-Halachmi, a poet (whose work provides the novel’s title); and Rochele Reznik, a professional reader, with whom the Author has a brief but steamy sexual skirmish; to say nothing of Ricky the waitress, the real object of his desire. One life story builds on another — and the author finds himself unexpectedly involved with his creations.

• Author
• Amos Oz, Nicholas de Lange

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 128

• Publisher
• Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780151013678

• Genres
• fiction, israel, novels, jewish, literature, contemporary, judaism, unfinished

• Release date
• 2009