Judas by Amos Oz
Shmuel Ash, a biblical scholar, is adrift in his young life when he finds work as a caregiver for a brilliant but cantankerous old man named Gershom Wald. Also in the house is Atalia Abarbanel, the daughter of a deceased Zionist leader, a beautiful woman in her forties, who entrances young Shmuel.. At once an exquisite love story and coming-of-age novel, an allegory for the state of Israel and for the biblical tale from which it draws its title. Judas is Amos Oz's most powerful novel in decades.

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