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A Horse Walks Into a Bar by David Grossman
Category: Fiction
WINNER OF THE 2017 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE In a dive bar in a small Israeli city, Dov Greenstein, a comedian a bit past his prime, takes the stage for his final show. Over the course of a single evening, Dov's patter becomes a kind of memoir, taking us back into the terrors of his childhood. An ...Show more
A Horse Walks into a Bar by David Grossman
Category: Fiction
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 One of the world's great writers venturing into exciting new territory - a heartbreaking, visceral novel about a stand-up comedian WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 The setting is a comedy club in a small Israeli town. An audience that ha ...Show more
A Horse Walks into a Bar by David Grossman
Category: Fiction
The setting is a comedy club in a small Israeli town. An audience that has come expecting an evening of amusement instead sees a comedian falling apart on stage; an act of disintegration, a man crumbling, as a matter of choice, before their eyes. They could get up and leave, or boo and whistle and drive ...Show more
Be My Knife by David Grossman (tr from Hebrew Vered Almog & maya Gurant
Category: Fiction
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 a sen ...Show more
Every Wrinkle Has a Story by David Grossman; Anna Masini (Illustrator); Jessica Cohen (Illustrator)
Category: Picture Books
Every Tuesday, Yotam's grandfather takes him to a coffee shop after kindergarten, where Grandpa Amnon drinks coffee and Yotam likes to draw. One day, Yotam has a question: "Grandpa, what's on your face?" Grandpa Amnon explains that the lines on his face are wrinkles, and they are something that grownup ...Show more
Falling Out of Time by David Grossman
Category: Fiction
In Falling Out of Time, David Grossman has created a genre-defying drama--part play, part prose, pure poetry--to tell the story of bereaved parents setting out to reach their lost children. It begins in a small village, in a kitchen, where a man announces to his wife that he is leaving, embarking on a j ...Show more
Falling out of Time by David Grossman
Category: Fiction
In Falling Out of Time, David Grossman has created a genre-defying drama - part play, part prose, pure poetry - to tell the story of bereaved parents setting out to reach their lost children. It begins in a small village, in a kitchen, where a man announces to his wife that he is leaving, embarking on a ...Show more
Lion's Honey : The Myth of Samson by David Grossman
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Myth Series
Out of the eater came something to eat. Out of the strong came something sweet. With this riddle Samson poses the even greater puzzle of why a strong and powerful young man should choose to impress, or confound, his peers with a brainteaser they can't possibly answer, rather than a demonstration of his ...Show more
Lion's Honey - The Myth of Samson by David Grossman; Stuart Schoffman (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
"There are few other Bible stories with so much drama and action, narrative fireworks and raw emotion, as we find in the tale of Samson: the battle with the lion; the three hundred burning foxes; the women he bedded and the one woman that he loved; his betrayal by all the women in his life, from his mot ...Show more
Lion's Honey - The Myth of Samson (Myth Series) by David Grossman; Stuart Schoffman (Translator)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Text Myth Ser.
"There are few other Bible stories with so much drama and action, narrative fireworks and raw emotion, as we find in the tale of Samson: the battle with the lion; the three hundred burning foxes; the women he bedded and the one woman that he loved; his betrayal by all the women in his life, from his mot ...Show more