Bücher von David Grossman

On a kibbutz in Israel in 2008, Gili is celebrating the ninetieth birthday of her grandmother Vera, the adored matriarch of a sprawling and tight-knit family. But festivities are interrupted by the arrival of Nina: the iron-willed daughter who rejected Vera's care; and the absent mother who abandoned Gili when she was still a baby.Nina's return to the family after years of silence precipitates an epic journey from Israel to the desolate island of Goli Otok, formerly part of Yugoslavia. It was here, five decades earlier, that Vera was held and tortured as a political prisoner. And it is here that the three women will finally come to terms with the terrible moral dilemma that Vera faced, and that permanently altered the course of their lives.More Than I Love My Life is a sweeping story about the power of love and loving with courage. A novel driven by faith in humanity even in our darkest moments, it asks us to confront our deepest held beliefs about a woman's duty to herself and to her children.

»Ein Lieblingsbuch.« Elke Heidenreich Jair sieht eines Tages eine fremde Frau, Mirjam. Wie hypnotisiert nähert er sich ihr, zunächst in verhaltenen Briefen, erhofft gar keine Antworten, aber bald beginnen die beiden, einander zu erzählen: Geschichten, Sehnsüchte, Leidenschaften. Jair enthüllt Mirjam seine Traum- und Seelenwelt, sie berichtet aus ihrem täglichen Leben. Aber dieses Leben, so erfährt er nach und nach, ist ganz und gar nicht, was es scheint ... Ein Liebesroman in Briefen und eine faszinierende Erkundung des Verhältnisses zwischen Mann und Frau, ihrer unterschiedlichen Erwartungen an die Liebe.

Geschichten voller geheimer Träume und Obsessionen Schaul, ein Mann in den besten Jahren, verfolgen die Bilder, wie seine Frau Elisheva ihn mit einem anderen betrügt. Rotem, eine Schriftstellerin, erzählt von der intensiven Beziehung ihrer Mutter zu einem Jungen. Dieser Mann und diese Frau, die sich im Buch nicht begegnen, sind doch auf vielfältige Weise miteinander verbunden. Sie erzählen von Liebe, Eifersucht und der Sehnsucht nach absoluter Nähe. Dabei erfahren wir immer wieder von Augenblicken größter Nähe und tiefster Einsamkeit der Protagonisten: Geschichten voller geheimer Träume und Obsessionen. Ihre Phantasien sind wirklicher als das reale Leben; ihre Wirklichkeit ist, was sie uns erzählen.

Profound essays on Israel, literature, and language from one of the country's most respected and best-loved voices Throughout his career, David Grossman has been a voice for peace and reconciliation between Israel and its Arab citizens and neighbors. In these six essays on politics and culture in Israel, he addresses the conscience of a country that has lost faith in its leaders and its ideals. This collection, Writing in the Dark, includes an already famous speech concerning the disastrous Second Lebanon War of 2006, the war that took the life of Grossman's twenty-year-old son, Uri.Moving, human, clear-sighted, and courageous, touching on literature and artistic creation as well as politics and philosophy, these writings are a cri de coeur from "a writer who has been, for nearly two decades, one of the most original and talented not only in his own country, but anywhere" (The New York Times Book Review).

In Death as a Way of Life, David Grossman, one of Israel's great fiction writers, addresses urgent questions regarding the middle east in a series of passionate essays and insightful articles.Writing not only as one of his country's most respected novelists and commentators, but as a husband and father and peace activist bitterly disappointed in the leaders of both sides, Grossman asks: What went wrong after Oslo? How can Israelis and Palestinians make peace? How has the violence changed their lives, and their souls?

Based on conversations with Palestinians in Israel, David Grossman's Sleeping on a Wire, like The Yellow Wind, is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the Middle East today.Israel describes itself as a Jewish state. What, then, is the status of the one-fifth of its citizens who are not Jewish? Are they Israelis, or are they Palestinians? Or are they a people without a country? How will a Palestinian state-if it is established-influence the sense of belonging and identity of Palestinian Israeli citizens? "No other Israeli writer so far has approached this touchy subject with such compassion, or looked at it with, so to speak, bifocal eyes, Israeli and Palestinian." --Amos Elon, The New York Review of Books

Alle haben geglaubt, Großvater Anschel sei von einer »Nazi-Bestie« umgebracht worden, doch eines Tages steht er, aus einer Irrenanstalt entlassen, vor der Tür: ein alter, frierender Mann, der unverständliches Zeug vor sich hin murmelt. Als müßte er immer wieder (wie damals im Lager) dem Obersturmbannführer neue Abenteuer der berühmten Kinderbande erzählen, Geschichten, die ihn als Schriftsteller berühmt gemacht haben. Eine schier unglaubliche Geschichte - und doch nur die Hälfte dieses mit mehreren internationalen Preisen ausgezeichneten Romans. Die andere gehört ganz dem neunjährigen Momik, der herauszufinden versucht, was der Großvater denn da murmelt, erzählt, erlebt haben könnte.

Für eine gute Pointe gab Dovele schon immer alles. Als Kind lief er oft auf den Händen. Er tat das, um seine Mutter zum Lachen zu bringen und damit ihm keiner ins Gesicht schlug. Heute steht er ein letztes Mal in einer Kleinstadt in Israel auf der Bühne. Er hat seinen Jugendfreund, einen pensionierten Richter, eingeladen. Im Laufe des Abends erzählt der Comedian zwischen vielen Witzen eine tragische Geschichte aus seiner Jugend. Es geht um Freundschaft und Familie, Liebe, Verrat und eine sehr persönliche Abrechnung auf dem Weg zu einer Beerdigung. Dem Kleinstadtpublikum ist das Lachen vergangen. Den Leser hält David Grossman mit diesem grandiosen Roman bis zur letzten Zeile gefangen.

Ein Mann zieht klagend um die Stadt, auf der Suche nach seinem toten Sohn. Viele schließen sich ihm an, stimmen in seine Trauer ein, weil auch sie ein Kind verloren haben. Zusammen bilden sie einen vielstimmigen Chor, der all die Fragen stellt, die jeden beim Tod eines Angehörigen bewegen: Wo ist der Verstorbene jetzt? Was bin ich ihm schuldig geblieben? Werde ich ihn je wiedersehen? Bis die Trauernden erkennen, "dass Leben in seiner ganzen Fülle nur dort, an dieser Grenzlinie besteht". Einige Jahre nach dem Tod seines Sohns im Libanonkrieg legt einer der berühmtesten Autoren aus Israel sein bisher persönlichstes Buch vor - Totenklage und Hymnus auf das Leben zugleich.

Ein raffiniert komponierter literarischer Thriller von rasantem Tempo und eine spannende Liebesgeschichte mit Happy End.So aufregend hat sich der 16-jährige Assaf seinen Ferienjob nicht vorgestellt: Ein herrenloser Hund zerrt ihn an der Leine hinter sich her quer durch die ganze Stadt Jerusalem. Er soll die Person finden, der das Tier entlaufen ist.Der Hund führt den schüchternen Jungen zu den verschiedensten Personen und Assaf erfährt so nach und nach mehr über die Hundebesitzerin, die 16-jährige Tamar. Assaf ist fasziniert und beunruhigt zugleich. Warum hat Tamar alle Brücken zu ihrem früheren Leben abgebrochen? In welche dunklen Machenschaften ist sie verstrickt? Immer stärker fühlt sich Assaf zu dem Mädchen hingezogen, und längst geht es nicht mehr darum, nur den Hund zurückzubringen. Mit jeder Hürde, die er bei seiner Suche überwinden muss, wachsen Assafs Kraft und Entschlossenheit. Als er Tamar endlich in ihrem Versteck findet, hat er den Mut, ihr zu helfen. Unter großen Anstrengungen und Gefahren gelingt es den beiden, Tamars Bruder Schai zu retten, der in die Abhängigkeit einer skrupellosen kriminellen Bande geraten ist.

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In Her Body Knows, a fevered storyteller and a captive audience revisit the past together in each of David Grossman's novellas, trying to make sense of a betrayal that neither one can put to rest.In "Frenzy," reserved, respectable Shaul lets his sister-in-law, Esti, into a secret nightmare, as he reveals to her his conviction that his wife is having an affair. Along with Esti, we find ourselves trapped in his paranoia and desperation as we accompany the odd pair down Israel's highways on a journey that reveals a passion perverted by jealousy and self-loathing.In the title story, a successful but embittered novelist visits her mother, who is in the last stages of cancer. Grossman investigates the powers of storytelling to harm and heal as the daughter reads aloud her own imagined, merciless account of her mother's love affair with a much younger teenage boy. Gradually it becomes clear that, for all its anger, the daughter's story and the writing process itself have led her to a new appreciation of her mother's difficult character, and her own.Studies in obsession, claustrophobia, and the need to confess, these two novellas mark a new departure from "a writer who has been, for nearly two decades, the one of the most original and talented ... anywhere." (The New York Times Book Review).

The international bestseller Be My Knife is a compelling love story from David Grossman, the leading Israeli novelist of his generation"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 complex, guarded letters reveal a life of secrets kept from the people closest to him--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 the limits of intimacy. A deep departure from David Grossman's previous work, Be My Knife is his subtlest, most passionate novel yet.

David Grossman's Someone to Run With tells the story of a lost dog, and the discovery of first love on the streets of Jerusalem, portrayed here with a gritty realism that is as fresh as it is compelling.When awkward and painfully shy sixteen-year-old Assaf is asked to find the owner of a stray yellow lab, he begins a quest that will bring him into contact with street kids and criminals, and a talented young singer, Tamar, engaged on her own mission: to rescue a teenage drug addict.A runaway bestseller in Israel, in the words of the Christian Science Monitor: "It's time for Americans to fall in love with (Grossman's) Someone to Run With."

David Grossman's masterly fusing of vision, thought, and emotion make See Under: Love a luminously imaginative and profoundly affecting work. In this powerful novel by one of Israel's most prominent writers, Momik, the only child of Holocaust survivors, grows up in the shadow of his parents' history. Determined to exorcise the Nazi "beast" from their shattered lives and prepare for a second holocaust he knows is coming, Momik increasingly shields himself from all feeling and attachment. But through the stories his great-uncle tells him-the same stories he told the commandant of a Nazi concentration camp-Momik, too, becomes "infected with humanity." "A dazzling work of imagination."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

With The Book of Intimate Grammar, leading Israeli novelist David Grossman gives us the story of the greatest and most universal tragedy, the loss of the world of childhood. At twelve, Aron Kleinfeld is the ringleader among the boys in his Jerusalem neighborhood, their inspiration in dreaming up games and adventures. But as his friends begin to mature, Aron remains imprisoned for three long years in the body of a child. While Israel inches toward the Six-Day War, and the voices of his friends change and become strange to him, Aron lives in his child body as though in a nightmare. Like a spy in enemy territory, he learns to decipher the internal codes of sexuality and desire, to understand the unyielding bureaucracy of the human body. Hurled between childhood and adulthood, between the pure and the profane, he is like a volcano of emotions and impulses. But, like his hero Houdini, Aron still struggles to escape from the trap of growing up. The Book of Intimate Grammar is about the alchemy of childhood, which transforms loneliness and fear into creation, and about the struggle to emerge an artist. Funny, painful, and passionate, it is a work of enormous intensity and beauty.

In a chorus of voices David Grossman's The Smile of the Lamb tells the story of Uri, an idealistic young Israeli soldier serving in an army unit in the small Palestinian village of Andal, in the occupied territories, and his relationship with Khilmi, a nearly blind old Palestinian storyteller. Gradually as the violent reality of the occupation that infects both the occupier and the occupied alike merges with the old man's stories, Uri, captivated by Khilmi's wisdom, tries to solve the riddles and deceits that make up his life.Originally published in Hebrew in 1983, The Smile of the Lamb is a novel of disillusionment and a piercing examination of injustice and dishonesty.

This volume examines the relationships between rural settlement processes and the spatial patterns they produce by mapping past and present patterns and tracing the historical processes which generated them.

Dovaleh G, a veteran stand-up comic - charming, erratic, repellent - exposes a wound he has been living with for years: a fateful and gruesome choice he had to make between the two people who were dearest to him. A Horse Walks into a Bar is a shocking and breathtaking read.