Momik, the protagonist of the book, is the only child of survivors of the Holocaust. He grows up in the shadow of their history, determined to understand the nature of the Nazi beast and to prepare for a holocaust he knows is still to come.

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GROSSMAN, DAVID

Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random

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Literature & Fiction

GROSSMAN

History & Criticism

Vintage Books USA

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. He stops growing, retreats from the world, and is imprisoned in the body of a child for three long years. While Israel inches towards the Six-Day War, and his friends cross the boundary between childhood and adolescence, Aron remains in his child`s body, spying on the changes that adulthood wreaks as, like his hero Houdini, he struggles to escape the trap of growing up.

BOOK OF INTIMATE GRAMMAR, THE

Literary

The Yellow Wind

Travel

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

This novel, from the author of "The Yellow Wind" and recipient of the Publishers' Association Prize for the best novel in Hebrew, concerns Momik, the only child of Holocaust survivors, who becomes infected with intense loving kindness that exists alongside the horrors of our history.

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World Literature

RH Canada UK Dist

At 12, Ahron is the leader of the boys in his Jerusalem neighbourhood. But as they begin to grow up, Ahron refuses. He turns away from the brutality of sensual life that he witnesses in his father's behaviour, and ignores the growing regimentation called "patriotism", as the Six-Day War advances.

The Book of Intimate Grammar

CAPE.

Falling Out of Time

Genre Fiction

Alfred.A. Knopf

[ Rural Process-Pattern Relationships: Nomadization, Sedentarization, and Settlement Fixation By ( Author ) Mar-1992 Hardcover

Rural Process-Pattern Relationships: Nomadization, Sedentarization, and Settlement Fixation

History

Africa

Praeger

In this stunning, bestselling novel—and an NBCC Award finalist—David Grossman tells the powerful story of a mother’s love for her son. Just before his release from service in the Israeli army, Ora’s son Ofer is sent back to the front for a major offensive. In a fit of preemptive grief and magical thinking, so that no bad news can reach her, Ora sets out on an epic hike in the Galilee. She is joined by an unlikely companion—Avram, a former friend and lover with a troubled past—and as they sleep out in the hills, Ora begins to conjure her son. Ofer’s story, as told by Ora, becomes a surprising balm both for her and for Avram—and a mother’s haunting meditation on war and family. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Christian Science Monitor, The Economist, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and The Pittsburgh Post Gazette A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

To the End of the Land (Vintage International)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Vintage

From one of Israel’s most acclaimed writers comes a novel of extraordinary power about family life—the greatest human drama—and the cost of war. Ora, a middle-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 “notifiers” who might darken her door with the worst possible news. Recently estranged from her husband, Ilan, she drags along an unlikely companion: their former best friend and her former lover Avram, once a brilliant artistic spirit. Avram served in the army alongside Ilan when they were young, but their lives were forever changed one weekend when the two jokingly had Ora draw lots to see which of them would get the few days’ leave being offered by their commander—a chance act that sent Avram into Egpyt and the Yom Kippur War, where he was brutally tortured as POW. In the aftermath, a virtual hermit, he refused to keep in touch with the family and has never met the boy. Now, as Ora and Avram sleep out in the hills, ford rivers, and cross valleys, avoiding all news from the front, she gives him the gift of Ofer, word by word; she supplies the whole story of her motherhood, a retelling that keeps Ofer very much alive for Ora and for the reader, and opens Avram to human bonds undreamed of in his broken world. Their walk has a “war and peace” rhythm, as their conversation places the most hideous trials of war next to the joys and anguish of raising children. Never have we seen so clearly the reality and surreality of daily life in Israel, the currents of ambivalence about war within one household, and the burdens that fall on each generation anew. Grossman’s rich imagining of a family in love and crisis makes for one of the great antiwar novels of our time.

To the End of the Land

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