David Grossman

"A stand-up comedian recalls some of his darkest moments and traumatic memories from childhood on stage in front of a live audience"--

A Horse Walks Into a Bar

Fleeing to Galilee in despair when her son voluntarily rejoins the Israeli army, Ora drags along estranged family friend Avram, a tortured former POW to whom she relates her experiences of motherhood against a backdrop of constant war and fear.

To the End of the Land

Qualcuno con cui correre

Che tu sia per me il coltello

Capturing the lives of Israeli street kids, follows two teenagers--Assaf, a shy and awkward sixteen-year-old, and Tamar, a talented young singer--and the missing dog that brings them together.

A Novel

Someone to Run With

Bir At Bara Girmis

"From the internationally best-selling author--and revered moral voice--a remarkable novel of suffering, love, and healing, the story of three generations of women and a secret that needs to be told. The story was inspired by the life of a friend and confidante of David Grossman who, in the late 1940s, was imprisoned and tortured on the notorious Goli Otok, a barren island prison off the coast of Croatia. Grossman's telling focuses on three strong women--Vera, 90; her daughter, Nina; and her granddaughter, Gili, who at 39 years old is a filmmaker and a wary consumer of affection. A bitter secret divides each mother and daughter pair, though Gili--abandoned when she was just three by Nina--has been close to her grandmother throughout her life. With Gili making the arrangements, they travel together back to Goli ("the Adriatic Alcatraz"), where Vera was imprisoned, enslaved, and tortured for three years as a young wife, when she refused to betray her husband and denounce him as an enemy of the people. This unlikely journey, documented by Gili's camera, lays bare the intertwining of fear, love, and mercy, and the complex overlapping demands of romantic and parental passion. With flashbacks to the stalwart Vera protecting what was most precious on the wretched rock where she was held, and Grossman's fearless examination of the human heart, this swift novel will thrill his many readers and bring new ones into the fold"--

More Than I Love My Life

A prominent Israeli writer's report on the Israeli-Arab situation describes what he observed on the West Bank in early 1987, from the miserable condition of the Palestinian refugees and their hatred of the Israelis to the costs of occupation for both occupier and occupied. Reprint.

With a New Afterword by the Author

The Yellow Wind

The Myth of Samson (Myths, The)

Lion's Honey

We could be like two people who inject themselves with truth serum, and at long last have to tell it; the truth. I want to be able to say to myself, 'I bled truth with her,' yes, that's what I want. Be a knife for me, and I, I swear, will be a knife for you. An awkward, neurotic seller of rare books writes a desperate letter to a beautiful stranger whom he sees at a class reunion. This simple, lonely attempt at seduction begins a love affair of words between Yair and Miriam, two married, middle-aged adults, dissatisfied with their lives, yearning for the connection that has always eluded them; and, eventually, reawakened to feelings that they thought had passed them by. Their correspondence unfolds into an exchange of their most naked confessions- of desire, childhood tragedies, joys, and humiliations. Through the dialogue between Yair; a family man and surprisingly successful adulterer, whose guarded letters reveal a life of duplicity; and Miriam, at first deceptively open and warm, who fills her life with distraction to avoid a past full of painful secrets, Be My Knife explores the nature and limits of intimacy. A departure from David Grossman's previous work, Be My Knife is his subtlest, most passionate novel yet.

Be My Knife

Israel's most lauded contemporary writer retells the story of Samson, one of the most tempestuous, charismatic, and colorful characters in the Bible, and follows the tortured journey of a single, lonely, and turbulent soul.

The Myth of Samson

Momik, the only child of Holocaust survivors, is determined to understand the nature of the evil that he hears about in his great-uncle's stories about life in the concentration camps, in a powerful novel that brilliantly weaves together vision, thought, and emotion. Reprint.

See Under: LOVE

Was Nina wusste

La vita gioca con me

O romance vencedor do Prémio Man Booker Internacional 2017.Será que uma piada é só uma piada?O premiado e internacionalmente aclamado autor de Até ao Fim da Terra apresenta-nos agora um romance sobre a vida de um cómico de stand-up, revelada no decorrer da performance de uma noite. Na dança entre humorista e público, com farpas voando de um lado para o outro, uma história mais profunda vai tomando forma uma história que irá alterar a vida de muitos dos presentes.«A última dádiva de Grossman é uma obra-prima curta e chocante em que o absurdo e o humor são usados para explorar os recantos mais sombrios da condição humana Uma história de tortura psicológica e espiritual de dar cabo dos nervos, o tipo de história que é tão negra que a única defesa contra ela é o humor mais negro.»The Sunday Times

Um Cavalo Entra num Bar

Ülkenin Sonuna

romanzo

A un cerbiatto somiglia il mio amore

Michal Rovner

"Hugging" is a short, brilliant fable about loneliness and love.

L'abbraccio

In Falling Out of Time, David Grossman has created a genre-defying drama - part play, part prose, pure poetry - to tell the story of bereaved parents setting out to reach their lost children. It begins in a small village, in a kitchen, where a man announces to his wife that he is leaving, embarking on a journey in search of their dead son.The man - called simply the 'Walking Man' - paces in ever-widening circles around the town. One after another, all manner of townsfolk fall into step with him (the Net Mender, the Midwife, the Elderly Maths Teacher, even the Duke), each enduring his or her own loss. The walkers raise questions of grief and bereavement: Can death be overcome by an intensity of speech or memory? Is it possible, even for a fleeting moment, to call to the dead and free them from their death? Grossman's answer to such questions is a hymn to these characters, who ultimately find solace and hope in their communal act of breaching deathâe(tm)s hermetic separateness. For the reader, the solace is in their clamorous vitality, and in the gift of Grossmanâe(tm)s storytelling âe" a realm where loss is not merely an absence, but a life force of its own.

Falling Out of Time

The novel tells the story of a platonic relationship between a man and a woman, who are each married to someone else. The book is made up of letters written by the man, Yair, and the woman, Miriam.

David Grossman

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