Books by David Grossman
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review 1: I'd give this book a 4.5 if Goodreads would let me. The writing exemplifies what excellent experimental work does - it takes bits and pieces of seemingly unrelated conventions and connects them into something new and unique, while making the reader feel something close to poignan...
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review 1: This is a very hard book to read, whether in translation or in the original Hebrew. Grossman weaves the anxious voice of Ora with her trek with Avram through the Galil. As she tells Avram about Ofer, the couple climbs rocks, trips over roots, and absorbs the varied beauty of the ...
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review 1: This book is something that I am not used to reading. But I truly did enjoy how the author did write this book. I loved how it was in poetry type of style and even play like. I thought I would have a hard time understanding the story but that was not the case. Really dramatic...
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review 1: As some people know: David Grossman lost his son (during the War in Israel) --5 years ago.His book "To The End of The Land" (an AMAZING BOOK --one of my all time favorites) -- was his last novel. --This new release book "Falling Out of Time" is a small little book written for ...
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review 1: E’ stata una lettura difficile e sofferta.Protagonisti i sentimenti raccontati con un’intensità dolorosa. è un libro dai temi profondi, perché non parla solo di una storia personale, della vita di una famiglia, ma del popolo israeliano, dei conflitti interni, delle fragilità di...
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review 1: Ora, Avram, and Ilan meet as teenagers in the 1960's. They are all Isreali, very sick (hepatitis?), and left for dead inside a dark (power outages), evacuated hospital. Together they listen to the bombing going on all around them and talk each other through their fever-induced de...
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review 1: This is about 90% of a really good book. Grossman's characters are fantastic and the plot is engaging, but near the end, it starts to trail off and goes nowhere. Many loose ends are left dangling and there is a change in the behavior of Ora, the main character, that seems inexpli...