BLACK BOX by Amos Oz; translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas De Lange (A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: $21.95; 243 pp.)
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By Richard Eder June 5, 1988 12 AM PT Share via Close extra sharing options Email Facebook X LinkedIn Threads Reddit WhatsApp Copy Link URL Copied! Print
The matrimonial love-hate triangle that provides the novel’s ostensible subject also stands for the unresolved question that troubles and divides thoughtful Israelis over their nation’s
character and destiny.
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