David Grossman est un romancier israélien de premier plan dont l'œuvre explore en profondeur les complexités de la psyché humaine et les enjeux sociétaux. Il applique son bagage en philosophie et en théâtre à des récits qui examinent souvent les thèmes de la mémoire, du traumatisme et de la quête d'identité. Le style de Grossman est réputé pour sa profondeur psychologique intense et sa prose lyrique, capturant les expériences humaines les plus intimes. Ses textes, façonnés par le paysage israélien, résonnent d'un message universel sur la vulnérabilité et la résilience de l'esprit humain.
Ora décide de quitter Jérusalem et de partir effectuer une randonnée à travers le pays pendant 28 jours. Durant cette période, son fils, Ofer s'est porté volontaire pour une mission dans une ville palestinienne. Ora pense que si elle n'est pas présente pour apprendre la nouvelle de sa mort, son fils vivra. Elle part en compagnie de son amour de jeunesse, Avram.--[Memento]
Je voudrais que tu viennes voir mon spectacle. Regarde bien et dis-moi. Quoi ? Ce que tu as vu. Avishaï et Dovalé ont perdu contact depuis l’enfance. À présent, assis dans le bar, Avishaï ne peut plus reculer. Sur scène, les mots de Dovalé fusent avec un débit de mitraillette. Ensorceleur, cynique, provoquant... il est un funambule sur son fil. Jusqu’à ce que le masque se fende et que tout s’écroule. David Grossman est né à Jérusalem en 1954. Officier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres, il est l’auteur d’essais engagés et de nombreux romans abondamment primés, dont Une femme fuyant l’annonce , prix Médicis étranger. Tous sont disponibles en Points.
Israel: Jewish state and national homeland to Jews the world over. But a fifth of its population is Arab, a people who feel themselves to be an inseparable part of the Arab nation, most of which is still technically at war with the State of Israel.
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 report on one of the great tragedies of our time. The Yellow Wind is essential reading for anyone who seeks a deeper understanding of Israel today.
In his latest novel, David Grossman tells of an imaginative young boy whisked away to an extraordinary adventure.
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.
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 journey in search of their dead son.The man - called simply the 'Walking Man' - paces in ever-widening circles around the town. One after another, all manner of townsfolk fall into step with him (the Net Mender, the Midwife, the Elderly Maths Teacher, even the Duke), each enduring his or her own loss. The walkers raise questions of grief and bereavement: Can death be overcome by an intensity of speech or memory? Is it possible, even for a fleeting moment, to call to the dead and free them from their death? Grossman's answer to such questions is a hymn to these characters, who ultimately find solace and hope in their communal act of breaching death’s hermetic separateness. For the reader, the solace is in their clamorous vitality, and in the gift of Grossman’s storytelling – a realm where loss is not merely an absence, but a life force of its own.
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.
Assaf has reluctantly taken a dull summer job working for the City Sanitation Department. But the long days take a strange turn when he is ordered to find out who owns a distressed stray dog and ask them to pay a fee.
