Love and darkness are the two forces that run through the moving novel autobiography of Amos Oz, published for the first time in Hebrew in 2002. The author narrates his childhood and adolescence in the 1940s and 1950s, in Jerusalem and in the kibbutz of Hulda, marked for the tragic existence of her parents: Yehuda, a strict librarian, and Fania, a cultured, romantic and dreamy woman. Caught between them, the future writer is a child who bears on his fragile shoulders the heavy inheritance of his unique ancestors and is amazed at the great changes that will mark his life and that of his fledgling nation. The narration of A History of Love and Darkness oscillates back and forth in time and reflects more than one hundred years of family history, four generations of dreamers, scholars, self-centered poets and black sheep, which from Vilnius and Odessa, through Poland and Prague came to Israel.

"One of the funniest, most tragic and moving books I've ever read."
The Guardian

"A masterpiece".
The Irish Times

"If he only had two days to live, reading this book would be the only thing he could do to die without any regret."
The Repubblica

«A story of love and darkness is an example of a well narrated autobiography. A work immersed in the desire to live and to be, gratifying, exciting and intelligent ».
J. M. GUELBENZU, Babelia, El País