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| Author | Amos Oz |
|---|---|
| Language | Hebrew |
| Genre | Nonfiction novel |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Publication date | 2002 |
| Publication place | Israel |
Published in English | November 15, 2004 |
| Media type | Print, e-book, audiobook |
| Pages | 544 pages (English hardcover) |
| Awards | National Jewish Book Award |
| ISBN | 978-0151008780 |
A Tale of Love and Darkness (Hebrew: סיפור על אהבה וחושך Sipur al ahava ve choshech) is a memoir by the Israeli author Amos Oz, first published in Hebrew in 2002.
The book has been translated into 28 languages and over a million copies have been sold worldwide. In 2011, a bootleg Kurdish translation was found in a bookstore in northern Iraq. Oz was reportedly delighted.[1]
- ^ Blass, Ido (13 September 2011). "Israeli author Amos Oz, now in an Iraqi bookstore near you: 'A Tale of Love and Darkness,' published in English in 2004, has sold more than a million copies worldwide, and officially translated into 28 languages". Haaretz. Retrieved 1 January 2012.