David Grossman





David Grossman

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Leading Israeli novelist David Grossman (b. 1954, Jerusalem) studied philosophy and drama at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and later worked as an editor and broadcaster at Israel Radio. Grossman has written seven novels, a play, a number of short stories and novellas, and a number of books for children and youth. He has also published several books of non-fiction, including interviews with Palestinians and Israeli Arabs. Among Grossman`s many literary awards: the Valumbrosa Prize (Italy), the Eliette von Karajan Prize (Austria), the Nelly Sachs Prize (1991), the Premio Grinzane and the Premio Mondelo for The Zig-Zag Kid (Italy, 1996), the Vittorio de Sica Prize (Italy), the Juliet Club Prize, the Marsh Award for Children...more


Average rating: 3.86 · 3,370 ratings · 679 reviews · 52 distinct works
To the End of the Land
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3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 1,318 ratings — published 2008 — 28 editions
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Someone to Run With
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See Under: Love
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The Yellow Wind
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3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 1987 — 7 editions
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The Zigzag Kid
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3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 210 ratings — published 1994 — 11 editions
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Be My Knife
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 268 ratings — published 1998 — 15 editions
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Lion's Honey: The Myth of S...
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The Book of Intimate Grammar
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3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 1991 — 12 editions
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Her Body Knows
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Writing in the Dark: Essays...
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“The primary urge that motivates and engenders writing...is the writer's desire to invent and tell a story, and to know himself. But the more I write, the more I feel the force of the other urge, which collaborates with and completes the first one: the desire to know the Other from within him. To feel what it means to be another person. To be able to touch, if only for a moment, the blaze that burns within another human being.”
David Grossman

“Prometto che non ti scriverò e che non cercherò di mettermi in contatto con te. Non ti importunerò mai più. A malincuore chiuderò la porta che ti ho aperto con tanta gioia. Ma se per qualche motivo deciderai di tornare da me, devi sapere che in questa fase della mia vita ho bisogno della tua disponibilità più completa e della tua capacità di comprensione più profonda. Ho bisogno che tu fluisca liberamente verso di me, senza alcun ostacolo esterno. Ne ho bisogno come dell'aria che respiro. Se non puoi donarmi tutto questo, non venire. Davvero: non venire. Perché probabilmente mi sono sbagliata sul tuo conto...
(David Grossman, Che tu sia per me il coltello)”
David Grossman

“For him, the Holocaust was a laboratory gone mad, accelerating and intensifying human processes a hundredfold...”
David Grossman, See Under: Love

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