title: To Know a Woman (Harvest in Translation)
author:  Amos Oz 
description: One of Israel's best-known novelists pens a compelling psychological study of an Israeli espionage agent who retires following his wife's accidental death. </P><P>Copyright 1992 Cahners Business Information, Inc.</P>
zlib_text: **My Michael**
  
  Amos Oz
  
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   _Translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange_  
  _in collaboration with the author_
  
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  A Harvest Book • Harcourt, Inc.  
  ORLANDO AUSTIN NEW YORK SAN DIEGO TORONTO LONDON
  
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  Copyright © 1968 by Am Oved Publishers Ltd.  
  English translation copyright © 1972 by Chatto & Windus Ltd.  
  and Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or  
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  without permission in writing from the publisher.
  
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  Harcourt, Inc., 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, Florida 32887-6777.
  
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  This is a translation of _Mikha'el Sheli,_ originally published  
  in Israel by Am Oved Publishers Ltd. 1968
  
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