Tel Aviv, a muggy summer evening: A well-known writer is invited to a reading. What will his readers, what will his audience ask him? The usual? Why do you write? Are your books autobiographical? What did you want to convey with your last novel? What will he answer? The usual? Or will he defy expectations? In his new novel, Amos Oz tells the story of a well-known writer on a muggy summer evening in Tel Aviv, of the night of love that follows, of the people he encounters, until the stories they all have or could have unfold and intertwine, until what happens and what could have happened become indistinguishable. "Verses on Life and Death" is the unconventional response of the great storyteller Amos Oz to the question of the subversive interplay between life and literature.