Ora, amiddle-aged mother, is on the verge of celebrating her son Ofers release from Israeli army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive. In a fit of preemptive grief and magical thinking, she sets out for a hike in the Galilee, leaving no forwarding information for the notifiers [...]

Eleven years old and on the cusp of puberty, Aron Kleinfeld is precocious, imaginative - the leader of his gang of friends. But his bar mitzvah is looming, his friends are all hitting puberty and Aron, terrified and revolted by what he sees around him, enters a state of arrested development.[...]

Ora, amiddle-aged Israeli mother, is on the verge of celebrating her son Ofer's release from army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive. In a fit of preemptive grief and magical thinking, she sets out for a hike in the Galilee, leaving no forwarding information for the 'notifier[...]

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[...]

The story of a lost dog, and the discovery of first love on the streets of Jerusalem are 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 [...]

Following his magisterial "To the End of the Land, "the universally acclaimed Israeli author brings us an incandescent fable of parental grief--concise, elemental, a powerfully distilled experience of understanding and acceptance, and of art's triumph over death.
In "Falling Out of Time, "David[...]

Earnest, awkward and painfully shy, sixteen-year-old Assaf is having the worst summer of his life. With his big sister gone and his best friend suddenly the most popular kid in their class, Assaf spends his days at a lowly summer job in Jerusalem City Hall and his evenings alone, watching television[...]

Revisits Samson's famous battle with the lion, his many women and his betrayal by them all, including the only one he ever loved. This title reveals the journey of a single, lonely and tortured soul who never found a true home in world, who was uncomfortable in his very body and who, some might say,[...]

Oras søn, Ofer, som lige har overstået sin militærtjeneste, har frivilligt ladet sig genhverve i den israelske hær og er vendt tilbage til frontlinjen. Den fornyede frygt for sønnens skæbne er ved at drive Ora til vanvid. Uden nogen ide om hvordan hun skal kunne udholde ventetiden,[...]

I sin nya bok Fallen ur tiden, som undandrar sig alla genrebeskrivningar, undersöker den israeliske författaren David Grossman sorgens natur och den svåra vägen tillbaka efter en stor förlust. I denna märkvärdiga blandning av drama, prosa och poesi får vi möta en samling människor som, nä[...]