Plan Israel Travel

Oz spoke about the “great and simple things” in life such as loss, love, loneliness, rage, compassion. Oz took five years to write The Same Sea and he even went to Cypress alone to be able to concentrate on it. But there at the end of each day of writing, he found himself making notes and sketches, writing verse and rhymes and he realized that this was how the book had to be written, not only to tell a story, but also to “sing and dance.” His goal became to write a novel taken back to its “gutsy roots of shameless storytelling”. It is also a very personal story, at once both fiction and confession. The story is set in Bat Yam and tells the story of a prodigal son, his beautiful girlfriend, his father, sex and ghosts. The tale transcends politics and tells of the possibilities of more than forgiveness, but indeed of momentary communion between enemies. But it is not a political book and Oz pleaded with the audience not to read it as a political text.