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Morrissey may think that his autobiography was worthy of being published as a Penguin Classic, but the critic whose judgment counts most on this issue is Old Father Time. I’ll agree that the book is a classic if people are still reading it when the author is waving gladioli...
— Dec 2 2013
Given its reissue as part of Europa’s World Noir series, you’d be forgiven for dismissing Minotaur as a genre mystery story, or an overworked Police procedural. Even its cover blurb, with its talk of secret agents and John le Carré, encourages us to see it as a...
— Aug 6 2013
More translated crime from BENJAMIN TAMMUZ, MINOTAUR (Europa/World Noir), translated from the Hebrew by Mildred Budny and Kim Parfitt. This is character-based espionage fiction with the sophistication of the masters; an Israeli secret agent encounters a seductive Englishwoman...
— May 9 2013
The keen readers amongst you will have noticed a few Europa Editions posts amongst my reviews of late; this, the third, is MINOTAUR by Benjamin Tammuz. MINOTAUR, an Israeli novel originally published in Hebrew in 1989, is the story of a handful of individuals who form...
— Apr 29 2013
With echoes of Kafka and Conrad, Israeli novelist Tammuz (Castle in Spain) has fashioned a provocative, spare, slow-to-unfold mystery of character--an empty canvas that's teasingly filled in with skill and style. We begin with ""a man, who was a secret agent""--a nameless...
— Jun 26 2012
With a sparkling lack of imagination, perhaps,  I find the best way to approach this  intriguing novel by the late Benjamin Tammuz – former literary editor of Israeli newspaper Haaretz – is through his co-national Amos Oz. But, read the following passage about opening...
— Jun 26 2008
Tammuz accords his prose the kind of sensuousness you don’t find in le Carré or Greene. by CHARLES TAYLOR Graham Greene and John le Carré have long cornered the market ontales of gray, dour espionage mandarins who, with inevitably tragic results, feel their lives...
— Mar 15 2006

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