Where The Jackals Howl

"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 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.