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Original title
  
מנוחה נכונה

Language
  
Hebrew

Published in English
  
1985

Originally published
  
1982

Genre
  
Literary fiction

Publisher
  
Harcourt

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Country
  
Israel

Publication date
  
1982

Media type
  
Print (hardcover)

Author
  
Amos Oz

Page count
  
374

Translator
  
Hillel Halkin

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Amos Oz books, Fiction books

A Perfect Peace (Hebrew: מנוחה נכונה‎) is a 1982 novel by Israeli author Amos Oz that was originally published in Hebrew by Am Oved. It was translated by Hillel Halkin and published in the United States by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1985.

Contents

Plot

Set in Israel during the eighteen months leading up to the Six-Day War, the novel portrays life on a fictional kibbutz, Granot, where the founding generation and their children struggle to come to terms with each other and the ideological tensions within Israeli society. Oz documents the gap between the socialist dream of the founders and the strained realities of Israeli life, but it is also, according to the author, a mystical tale about "the secret merger between six or seven very different human beings who become a family in the deepest sense of the term."

Critical reception

A Perfect Peace was hailed by Publishers Weekly as "magnificent" upon its release and described by The Washington Post Book World as Oz's "strangest, riskiest, and richest novel". It won the Bernstein Prize in 1983.

References

A Perfect Peace Wikipedia