Books
by David Grossman
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A Horse Walks into a Bar |
When some celebrity's misdemeanours are publicly exposed you can choose whether to savour all the details or to turn away - but there's no escape for the audience in an Israeli comedy club expecting to enjoy the jokes and funny stories of a seasoned comedian. In this extraordinary novel, Grossman's comedian is falling apart, you and the audience are trapped in your seats, watching and listening as he peels away, skin by skin, all the layers of his pain.
(James Baker - bwl 84 Spring 2017) |
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More Than I Love My Life |
Gili's family are celebrating grandmother Vera's 90th birthday but when estranged daughter Nina arrives old wounds are opened. The novel takes us from Israel to Yugoslavia and to the desolate island, Goli Otok, where Tito's political prisoners were held. Under torture Vera must choose between defending her husband's political integrity or abandoning her child. Based on the life of Eva Panić Nahir, and fully acknowledged, indeed she asked him to write it - truly unpudownable.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 102 Autumn 2021) |
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To the End of the Land |
The Israeli experience . . . this moving novel tells the story of Ora, husband Ilan and ex-lover Avram, ex p.o.w in Egypt. Hiking through Galilea, Ora gives Avram back his self but can she save her son, at the front? These bare bones fail to convey the richness and complexity of this story of love, tragedy and survival in a country that feels itself irremediably embattled - extra poignant knowing Grossman's son died in the Lebanon. An eye-opening, thought-provoking masterpiece.
(Annabel Bedini - bwl 67 Winter 2013) |
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