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...
Thanks to NetGalley and to Random House UK, Vintage Publishing, Jonathan Cape for providing me with an ARC copy of this book that I freely chose to review. This is the first book I’ve read by David Grossman. I hope it won’t be the last. The description probably gives a fair idea of the plot. Yes, we...
A Horse Walks Into a Bar, David Grossman, author; Joe Barrett, narrator, Jessica Cohen, translator The book is well written, but I don’t think it will be universally enjoyed. I believe it is for a narrow audience that is familiar with Jewish humor and its universal ideas about guilt and shame. A st...
Set of short essays, worth of reading. This series of essays are interesting because we see fragments of the life in Palestine through the eyes not of a writer, but a survivor. Survivor of not only the current war but also of the Holocaust, that, without having it affected him in person, affected hi...
Original Title: מישהו לרוץ איתו / Mishehu laruts ito This is a YA novel, set in Israel, and I can't really remember why I picked it up in the first place. I probably thought it was something special, because of the somewhat unusual setting. It turned out to be an unusual novel. It's a touching st...
To the End of the Land is about an Israeli mother Ora, whose son has volunteered to extend his duty in the IDF. They had planned on hiking around the Gailee together but he bails on her. She decides to go with the boy's father, in a bargain with herself, that if she shares her son's memory with him ...
I thought this will be the first Grossman book that I didn't like. but I guess this is ok. There were even some moments when I felt the thrill. Perhaps a boy would like it a lot.
Sometimes the most amazing thing about a book is what led you to reading it at the first place. This one bumped it's way to the top of TBR by the influence of a chance meeting w/ someone from Israel during my travel, which reminded me of how much I enjoyed To the End of the Land. Well, all right, to...
This was one of those books I had to force myself to keep reading. I kept hoping it would get better, but it didn't. Bland writing, bland story. Perhaps her later books are better; she did write a whole series of these so some people seem to like them. This is a review for a different book by Sue ...
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