Gallia Oz, the daughter of Amos Oz, reveals in her new book "A thing disguised as love" that she experienced physical and verbal violence from her father.
"As a child, my father beat me, cursed and humiliated me," Oz writes. "The violence was creative: he dragged me out of the house and threw me on the doorstep outside. He called me filth. It wasn't a passing loss of temper and not a slap in the face here and there but a routine of sadistic abuse. My crime was being myself, so the punishment had no end. He needed to make sure I broke."