Where The Jackals Howl - Softcover

"It rarely happens that literature offers a more profound insight into politics and culture than does news reporting. Amos Oz has performed this rare service" (Times Literary Supplement)

"Amos Oz makes the desert a place of jackals and miracles... A strong, beautiful, disturbing book" (New York Times)

"A born storyteller" (Jewish Chronicle)

Where the Jackals Howl is prize-winning author Amos Oz's first collection of stories. On publication it received immediate critical acclaim and revealed Oz to be a master craftsman probing the emotional depths of his characters.

The lives of ordinary Israelis are set against the backdrop of community life in a Kibbutz. The fate of these individuals, their drives, ambitions and idiosyncrasies, are grounded by the physical and social structure of their community as Oz portrays their world as a microcosm of the wider world.