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Wizardry of Oz

At 73, Amos Oz vows that each story will be his last, but he still has more to tell.

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While writing a book, Amos Oz rises each morning at 5 a.m., gets dressed, then leaves his home on a sleepy suburban street in A rad, a small town in the mountains between Beersheba and the Dead Sea, to take a brisk 30-minute walk through the desert near his home. As he walks, he repeats out loud the dialogue he has written the day before. “I need to hear my characters speak, their voice, their accent,” Oz, Israel’s most successful writer, tells The Jerusalem Report. “Writing is a musical work no less than it is a literary work.”

Just turned 73, the Jerusalem-born author has led a split life. H e has created acclaimed literary works including My Michael (1968), The Hill of Evil Counsel (1976) and The Land of Israel (1983) that many say provide the most sensitive portraits ever penned of Israeli life.

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