Judas
ABOUT
THE BOOK
Shmuel – a young, idealistic student – has abandoned his studies in Jerusalem, taking a live-in job as a companion to a cantankerous old man. But Shmuel quickly becomes obsessed with the taciturn Atalia, a woman of enchanting beauty, who also lives in the house. As the household’s tangled, tragic past becomes apparent, so too does the story behind the birth of the state of Israel. Journeying back into the deep past, Judas is a love story like no other by a master storyteller at the height of his powers.
ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Nicholas
de Lange
Nicholas de Lange read Classical Mods and Greats at Christ Church, Oxford, followed by a DPhil in Patristics. After a brief spell as a Research Fellow of the University of Southampton he came to Cambridge as Lecturer in Rabbinics, becoming Reader in Hebrew and Jewish Studies in 1995 and Professor in 2001. His research interests include Hellenistic and Byzantine Judaism. He has held visiting positions at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, the Jewish Theological Seminary of Hungary in Budapest, the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris, the Freie Universität Berlin, the University of Toronto and Princeton University. He is also a prolific translator, specialising mainly in contemporary Hebrew fiction, and has served as Chairman of the Translators Association. He is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Member of the Academia Europaea.
Nicholas de Lange read Classical Mods and Greats at Christ Church, Oxford, followed by a DPhil in Patristics. After a brief spell as a Research Fellow of the University of Southampton he came to Cambridge as Lecturer in Rabbinics, becoming Reader in Hebrew and Jewish Studies in 1995 and Professor in 2001. His research interests include Hellenistic and Byzantine Judaism. He has held visiting positions at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, the Jewish Theological Seminary of Hungary in Budapest, the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris, the Freie Universität Berlin, the University of Toronto and Princeton University. He is also a prolific translator, specialising mainly in contemporary Hebrew fiction, and has served as Chairman of the Translators Association. He is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Member of the Academia Europaea.
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
Long-listed for the Man Booker International Prize, and a New York Times Editors’ Choice, Judas is a magnificent work of this gifted writer, acclaimed by the memoir A Tale of Love and Darkness, an international bestseller and recipient of the prestigious Goethe prize, as well as the National Jewish Book Award. In the very precise words of Peter Stanford, in his review for The Guardian, “Many-layered, thought-provoking and – in its love story – delicate as a chrysalis, (Judas) is an old-fashioned novel of ideas that is strikingly and compellingly modern”.