International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award 2002

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The 2003 Award

The Same Sea

by Amos Oz

Translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange in collaboration with the author

Nominated by:

State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Biblioteca Municipal Central de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

The Same Sea by Amos Oz

Publisher of Nominated Edition: Chatto & Windus ISBN 0701169249

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ABOUT THE BOOK

The Same Sea tells an intimate, everyday tale of grief, unrequited love, attachment and loss through the voices of a range of characters. Nadia Danon is dead, of cancer. Her widower, Albert, a tax accountant, comforted by his old friend and colleague Bettine, is trying to put his life back together. His son, Enrico, has gone off to lose or find himself in Tibet. The son's girlfriend, Dita, is a filmmaker back in Israel, where she is making friendly, daughterly overtures to Albert - his response is less platonic. Meanwhile, Dita has another lover- Giggy may be crass, but at least he's uncomplicated - and a passionate but mildly repellent film producer lusts after her too. Through these intersecting triangles of desire and love, theirs are the voices and the stories.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Born in Jerusalem in 1939, Amos Oz is the author of numerous novels and essay collections that have been translated into thirty languages. His best-known novels include My Michael, Black Box, To Know a Woman, Fima and Panther in the Basement, which was nominated for the 1999 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His most recent non-fiction collections are Israel, Palestine and Peace and The Story Begins: Essays on Literature. He has received several international awards, including the Prix Fémina, the Israel Prize and the Frankfurt Peace Prize. He lectures in literature at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev and was Weidenfeld Visiting Professor at St. Anne's College, Oxford, in 1998. He lives in Israel with his wife and children.

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