David Grossman es un destacado novelista israelí cuya obra profundiza en las complejidades de la psique humana y los problemas sociales. Aplica su formación en filosofía y drama a narrativas que a menudo exploran temas de memoria, trauma y la búsqueda de identidad. El estilo de Grossman es célebre por su intensa profundidad psicológica y su prosa lírica, capturando las experiencias humanas más íntimas. Sus textos, moldeados por el panorama israelí, resuenan con un mensaje universal sobre la vulnerabilidad y la resiliencia del espíritu humano.
Una semana antes de su Bar Nono, un muchacho de trece años, emprende un viaje en tren desde Jerusalén hasta Haifa, donde su tío, un reputado maestro y educador, le va a enseñar cómo comportarse en la vida. Sin embargo la aparición en escena de Felix, un reconocido y excéntrico estafador, trastocará todos los planes que tan cuidadosamente había preparado el padre del chico. De la mano de Felix, Nono conocerá la verdadera historia de su madre y descubrirá una faceta de sí mismo, rebelde y chispeante, que nunca antes se había aventurado a explorar.
En la familia de Momik el pasado es un tema vedado, del que no se ha de hablar bajo ninguna circunstancia. Quizá es por eso que su vida en Jerusalén transcurre sin grandes sobresaltos. Hasta que un día se produce el repentino e inesperado regreso de su abuelo Anshel Wasserman. Su extraña presencia y sus misteriosas historias consiguen despertar una curiosidad voraz en el muchacho y pronto surgirá en él la idea de una investigación secreta, la cual le desvelará que país ese, el de Allá, el habitado por la temible bestia nazi. Con el transcurso de los años, cuando Momik ya se ha convertido en un adulto y en escritor, decidirá visitar Polonia, dónde ha de encontrar los rastros del escirtor Bruno Schulz y así cerrar el círculo que ha conectar todo su pasado.
Israel: Jewish state and national homeland to Jews the world over. But a fifth
of its population is Arab, a people who feel themselves to be an inseparable
part of the Arab nation, most of which is still technically at war with the
State of Israel.
The Israeli novelist David Grossman’s impassioned account of what he observed on the West Bank in early 1987—not only the misery of the Palestinian refugees and their deep-seated hatred of the Israelis but also the cost of occupation for both occupier and occupied—is an intimate and urgent moral report on one of the great tragedies of our time. The Yellow Wind is essential reading for anyone who seeks a deeper understanding of Israel today.
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.
Focusing on three generations of women, this novel explores themes of suffering, love, and healing as they embark on an unexpected journey to a Croatian island. The narrative delves into their shared experiences and the secrets that bind them, highlighting the complexities of familial relationships and the transformative power of storytelling. With a backdrop of rich emotional depth, the book promises a poignant exploration of personal and collective histories.
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 death’s hermetic separateness. For the reader, the solace is in their clamorous vitality, and in the gift of Grossman’s storytelling – a realm where loss is not merely an absence, but a life force of its own.
Assaf has reluctantly taken a dull summer job working for the City Sanitation Department. But the long days take a strange turn when he is ordered to find out who owns a distressed stray dog and ask them to pay a fee.
In 1993 the Oslo Agreements were signed by Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, marking the beginning of promise for a constructive peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. The ten years that followed were charted first by hope and optimism only to deteriorate into revenge and violence. Throughout this decade David Grossman has published articles in the American and European press, written in a personal voice - father, husband, peace activist, novelist - as he witnesses devastating events, cries out with prophetic wisdom, and implores both sides to return to sanity and to negotiations. The publication of this collection of articles will mark ten years since the dream of Oslo.
