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David Grossman - To the End of the Land
Released: 02/09/2010
Jonathan Cape
Hailed by critics as a masterpiece, this award-winning book sees middle-aged Ora and her ex-lover Avram head to the hills to hide from any potentially life-shattering news about their soldier son. Ora's tender stories of motherhood intermingle with Avram's traumatic experiences as a prisoner of war. An affecting portrayal of modern Israeli life.
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The New York Times“There is a plenitude of felt life in the book...” He weaves the essences of private life into the tapestry of history with deliberate and delicate skill; he has created a panorama of breathtaking emotional force, a masterpiece of pacing, with characters whose lives are etched with vivid detail...
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Economist“Perhaps his most important novel yet...” Mr Grossman’s imagination is secular, worldly, self-questioning and ironic. The Israel he imagines, beautifully and sorrowfully, is not going to be saved by any divine intervention...
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Guardian“An extraordinary, impassioned novel...” Without question one of the most powerful and moving novels I have read. But we do the novel, and Grossman, no favours if we turn it into a sacred object, outside the reach of the history to which it so complexly and sometimes disturbingly relates...
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The Independent“To the End of the Land will have to be read and re-read...” Grossman has aimed as high as it is possible to do in a novel which deals with the great questions of love, intimacy, war, memory and fear of personal and national annihilation - and has overwhelmingly achieved everything...
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Financial Times“This is a deeply serious, utterly honest work about the state of Israel... ” Grossman is attempting to write the great Israeli novel, the play of big events on personal lives, the minutiae, texture, preoccupations, fears and prejudices of an unnatural society, surrounded by people who hate it irrationally...
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