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See Under: Love

by David Grossman, Betsy Rosenberg (Translator)

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In this powerful novel by one of Israel’s most prominent writers, Momik, the only child of Holocaust survivors, grows up in the shadow of his parents’ history. Determined to exorcise the Nazi “beast” from their shattered lives and prepare for a second holocaust he knows is coming, Momik increasingly shields himself from all feeling and attachment. But through the stories h...more

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Published January 12th 2002 by Picador (first published 1986)

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Jun 06, 2012 Mariel rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: your head is shouting please please please

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He realized he had spent most of his life as a daring trapeze artist on that high scaffold, and that he had always been careful not to look down, because looking downward and inward would have frightened him and made him recognize, much to his sorrow, that he wasn't a trapeze artist but a jailor. That somewhere along the line force of habit, fatigue, and negligence had turned him into the accomplice of the people with their hands joined around him.

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Aug 09, 2008 Karen rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-in-hebrew

In the first part of this book, Momik - the young son of Holocaust survivors, born and raised in Israel - says that grownups sometimes call him "alter kop", which in Yiddish means "old head". And he is, in a way, an old man in the body of a child. He is intelligent and painfully serious; he has no friends his own age but is drawn to the aging and deranged Holocaust survivors who populate his neighborhood in Jerusalem (which, believe me, is a creepy enough town as it is). But though wise beyond h...more In the first part of this book, Momik - the young son of Holocaust survivors, born and raised in Israel - says that grownups sometimes call him "alter kop", which in Yiddish means "old head". And he is, in a way, an old man in the body of a child. He is intelligent and painfully serious; he has no friends his own age but is drawn to the aging and deranged Holocaust survivors who populate his neighborhood in Jerusalem (which, believe me, is a creepy enough town as it is). But though wise beyond his years, his experience is still that of a child. He understands that some kind of beast - the "Nazi beast" - did something terrible that drove everyone out of a wonderful land "over there", but no one will explain just what that means. And so he takes it upon himself to find the beast and destroy it, hoping to save the people he loves.

"Alter kop" is also a pretty accurate way to describe Israel during that time, and even today. The country, though it just turned sixty this year, is steeped in thousands of years of tragedy. The Hebrew language is also a strange combination of young and old: it is rooted in the Bible and is rich in history and connotation, but was essentially frozen in time for about two thousand years (though it's since developed at an amazing pace; see for example this cute article in the New York Times). Needless to say, the Israeli literary tradition is also very young. Whereas English fiction writers have thousands and thousands of sources to learn and draw inspiration from, when "See Under: Love" was published in 1986, there were probably fewer than a hundred people who had successfully written or were writing fiction in Hebrew.

So what I think I'm trying to get at here, is that this book is about how Grossman learned to tell an incredible, impossible story with the vocabulary at his disposal, which was, essentially, the vocabulary of a child. And the first part of this book, "Momik", is written in language that a child would use (albeit a child surrounded by a bunch of depressing old diasporics). This is a novella that stands alone - in fact, it was later published in Israel as a separate book - and I think it's the culmination of Grossman's learning process. It is probably the most perfect 80 pages I have ever read. It conveys perfectly the paradox of living in Israel, even today, maintaining a beautiful balance between sturdy Israeliness (for example when a paramedic brings Momik's 'grandfather' home and everyone is panicking, he says, in a dismissive tone that anyone who's been in Israel will be familiar with, "Don't get excited, lady, nothing happened, what can happen?") and the fearful ghostliness of life in the shadow of the Holocaust.

The following three chapters seem to me to be the storyteller's (Momik? Grossman?) way of working up to that perfect story. Well, it's not exactly THAT story that he initially sets out to write - Momik grows up and becomes a writer and decides to try to tell the story of his grandfather, Anshel "Scheherazade" Wasserman, who, while in a concentration camp, wove a tale for a Nazi officer that drew him in so completely that the Nazi was eventually destroyed. That tale appears in the third chapter (which is excellent) and in the fourth and last (written in the form of an encyclopedia; I found it too abstract). In the second chapter, Momik spends most of his time floating face down in the sea, which speaks to him, in a slightly irritating stream of consciousness, all about Bruno Schulz, a Polish writer who was shot during the Holocaust. But not the real Bruno Schulz, no: a Bruno Schulz as imagined by Momik, a Schulz who escapes death and swims away with the salmon. That part, to me, read as if the writer had taken some pill to get his juices flowing, and though possibly a necessary part of the process, I kind of wished Grossman hadn't felt the need to include it in the final book. I also have quite a bit of criticism re: Grossman's portrayal of female characters (he always makes sure to emphasize that they're unattractive; none of them are very intelligent and certainly not intellectual; the book talks a lot about "art" and "creation" and the only thing he lets a woman create is a fetus).

I'm giving the book five stars, though, because (a) the first chapter really, truly, is amazing, and the third chapter - which seems to be the story he was actually shooting for - is also great, and (b) he is so incredibly ambitious that I'm willing to forgive the parts that don't work, especially since the availability of good fiction editors in Israel at the time was probably even more limited than the availability of writers.

I don't know if the English translation gets all that across, because the book is very much about language. (I read it in Hebrew, and I'm gonna brag about it, because it took me more than 6 weeks to read the damn thing.) Maybe I'll check it out sometime, but I think it'll probably be a while before I have the mental strength to pick this book up again.

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Dec 17, 2007 Philip rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I read the first 100-page chapter of this book in one stunned sitting the summer my son was born. I don't normally read Holocaust related fiction, but See Under: Love captivated me and tore me up. I lent the book to a dear friend who couldn't get past the opening pages, so I guess it's not for everyone, but for those with a tolerance or liking for magical realism, unusual plotting, and (truly) heartbreaking genius.

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Jun 01, 2011 Luana rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Quando si incontra un autore come Grossman la prima cosa da fare è sedersi.
In seguito bisogna munirsi di umiltà, aprire tutti e cinque i sensi all’apprendimento e diventare discepoli di un insegnante che accompagna lungo un percorso profondo, enigmatico, talvolta insidioso, ma infine soddisfacente e di arricchimento personale.
‘Vedi alla voce: amore’ è più di quanto lontano possa esserci da un libro, ‘Vedi alla voce: amore’ è un cammino a tappe volto a far scoprire cosa sia stato quell’evento d...more Quando si incontra un autore come Grossman la prima cosa da fare è sedersi.
In seguito bisogna munirsi di umiltà, aprire tutti e cinque i sensi all’apprendimento e diventare discepoli di un insegnante che accompagna lungo un percorso profondo, enigmatico, talvolta insidioso, ma infine soddisfacente e di arricchimento personale.
‘Vedi alla voce: amore’ è più di quanto lontano possa esserci da un libro, ‘Vedi alla voce: amore’ è un cammino a tappe volto a far scoprire cosa sia stato quell’evento da tutti conosciuto, da pochi compreso, che ha il nome (errato) di Olocausto, Shoah, Sacrificio; sacrificio di ‘bestie al macello’ messo in atto da una mente e dai suoi corpi esecutori che, credendo nel dislivello della qualità umana, hanno compiuto una strage.

Grossman non compie il solito reportage di quelle immagini che tutti conosciamo di bambini su bambini, corpi su corpi, mostrate dalla televisione e compiante in quell’ipocrita 27 Gennaio in cui ognuno pubblica ‘Se questo è un uomo’ di Primo Levi sul proprio profilo, per poi deridere l’accento del venditore ambulante di colore (chiamato, senza alcun rispetto ‘vucumprà’) il 28 di Gennaio. No, Grossman scava nella psiche di un ebreo, esperto nel rendere l’aspetto più vero, meno ipocrita, meno bisognoso di compassione, di quello che è stato l’omicidio di sei milioni di ebrei; sei milioni di ebrei, ma in fondo l’omicidio di uno per uno di sei milioni di individui, ognuno dotato di una personalità, di un carattere, di affetti ed effetti personali. Non statistica, come la definì Stalin nel suo tragicamente noto aforisma, ma la morte per omicidio di uno a uno di sei milioni di ebrei.

Nel viaggio in compagnia di Grossman si parte bambini con Momik, 9 anni e tante, troppe domande al fronte di poche, troppe poche risposte di quegli adulti che sono genitori ebrei, ma che sono stati deportati e che si sono riusciti a salvare. Ma, salvandosi, non sono riusciti a ricucire del tutto quello che il Terzo Reich, in modo programmatico, sistematico, spietato aveva sfaldato. Urlano nella notte, mangiano come se fosse l’ultimo pasto, scorgono Momik, ma non lo vedono davvero. Cosa sono quei numeri tatuati sul polso? Cosa sono tutti questi misteri sul passato? A produrre il moltiplicarsi delle domande, è l’arrivo del nonno Anshel Wasserman a casa di Momik. Prima di scoprire cosa Wasserman farfuglia, e contro chi si arrabbia nei suoi discorsi incomprensibili sospesi a mezz’aria, bisogna proseguire il viaggio con Momik ormai sposato che incontra Bruno Schulz.
Comprendere il perché dell’introduzione di Bruno Schulz è fondamentale per comprendere il perché Grossman abbia voluto scrivere l’ennesima opera con oggetto: Shoah.
Ridare una morte dignitosa a Schulz, noto scrittore polacco ucciso da un nazista come sfida ad un nazista rivale (‘Ho ucciso il tuo ebreo’ ‘Ora io ucciderò il tuo), significa ridare individualità, dignità personale a tutti quegli ebrei che sono passati alla storia come ‘sei milioni’ e non come ‘uno ad uno’. Schulz viaggia con i salmoni, animali che esprimono la sfida alla difficoltà della vita, per sfuggire agli orrori del nazismo e dell’anti-semitismo.
E con Schulz viaggia anche il lettore sino all’epoca geniale, epoca in cui ognuno torna bambino, e non conosce né male né sofferenze.
Ma la parte più toccante del viaggio, quella che scava più a fondo, quella che provoca lacrime e regala sorrisi, è quella che svela chi è il nonno Wasserman e contro chi farfuglia.
Wasserman farfuglia contro Neigel, Capo del campo di concentramento dove Wasserman è rinchiuso. Neigel, prima di essere un capo SS, è stato un bambino che ha amato le storie che Wasserman pubblicava nella raccolta ‘Ragazzi di Cuore’ e, anziché ucciderlo, gli chiede ancora di narrare. Grazie alle parole di Wasserman, ai suoi racconti mirati, Neigel ricorderà di essere umano, prima ancora che un omicida nazista.

E’ un rapporto forte, solidale, celebrale quello che si instaura tra la vittima e il suo aguzzino, rapporto che si ribalta sino a diventare rapporto tra narratore ed ascoltatore, nell’esaltazione della personalità, della capacità creativa, dell’Arte. Perché l’Arte, come talento che ognuno serba, è un dono che nessun uomo può strappare ad un altro, che nessuno deve sopprimere. Che per sei milioni di volte è svanito nelle sfumate delle ceneri fuoriuscenti dalle camere a gas.
Infine, un’enciclopedia. Infine perché ormai, se si è colto ogni significato che Grossman nasconde in queste righe che non lasciano respiro, si è davvero maturati, e si è davvero in grado, ormai, di avere il titolo di viaggiatori esperti. Viaggiatori nella psiche di uno scrittore ebreo che ha voluto parlare della dignità umana, di quanto sia necessario che nessuno limiti la sfera altrui di personalità. Un’enciclopedia che, voce per voce, spiega in maniera trasversale, il significato di un eccidio come quello compiuto contro gli individui di appartenenza ebraica tra il 1940 e il 1945.
Voce per voce, per arrivare alla G, e cancellare la voce Guerra.
Voce per voce, per arrivare alla A, e rendere dominante la voce Amore.
Amore per la vita, per la speranza, per il talento che ognuno conserva dentro di sé.

Un’opera di impianto magnificente, di un’architettura imponente, decorata da uno stile impeccabile, denso, armato di tutte le armi di cui la penna può disporre quando è capace e consapevole.
Una risposta a domande che non ci si è formulati, e alle quali invece è fondamentale rispondere.

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Mar 20, 2013 Amy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Really good. In the first chapter, Momik is our protagonist. He's a boy of Holocaust survivors. His whole perception of their experience takes on mythological elements because of their unwillingness to talk frankly about that time in their life. In part two, Momik is grown-up and channeling Bruno Schulz and dreaming of a sea mistress. In the third part we learn about Anshel Wasserman, Momik's great-uncle who also lived through the Holocaust, namely by entertaining a German officer in a Scheheraz...more

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Mar 08, 2012 Ann rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: unfinished, lib, 2012

Ik geef het op. Ik heb me door deel I geworsteld, ik raakte verstrikt in deel II en besloot het over te slaan. Ik ben begonnen aan deel III maar vandaag is de kogel door de kerk: ik stop ermee. Hoe vreselijk ik het ook vind om een boek niet uit te lezen, na meer dan een maand worstelen is het goed geweest, ik geef me over. Dit boek is duidelijk niet voor mij geschreven.

Het eerste deel gaat over Momik, de verteller in deel 2 en 3. In deel 2 springt de ik-persoon van de hak-op-de-tak in een verha...more

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Mar 18, 2012 Kyra rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book is just on the verge of being impossible to read. A Mobius strip of narratives, points of view, time sequence, and plot in which it seems essential to the writer that the reader never get completely oriented. So, even though I did want to throw it across the room any number of times for tossing me off the deck into the sea one more time, I gave it four stars. Why?

First, there are a 117 incredible ideas in this book and I would not have missed any one of them (although I'm sure I did!)....more This book is just on the verge of being impossible to read. A Mobius strip of narratives, points of view, time sequence, and plot in which it seems essential to the writer that the reader never get completely oriented. So, even though I did want to throw it across the room any number of times for tossing me off the deck into the sea one more time, I gave it four stars. Why?

First, there are a 117 incredible ideas in this book and I would not have missed any one of them (although I'm sure I did!).

What is memory? What is the relationship between memory and identity? What is morality? What is the relationship between love and morality? What is it like to grow up in a world where all the adults share the same memories, yet no one speaks of them to you, even though they are all literally crawling out of their skins with the discomforts their memories bring.

It is also book about the privilege of authorship, the relationship between author and audience and ultimately who "owns" the story being told.

Momik is a little boy, growing up in Jerusalem to his survivor parents. At 10, he recognizes that all the adults in his world have been afflicted by Nazi Beast from Over There. He feels an overwhelming sense of responsibility to free them from the Beast, and, like a child who identifies with Superman, he prepares to do battle against it and save them all. But since no one will speak to him about what this Beast is directly he has resorted to all manner of fabrication and independent research to put together a dim idea of their common enemy -- their own history -- so that he can prepare to do battle against it. But like a child in the midst of the most complicated divorce imaginable the story he has told himself, though not without its poignant emotional accuracies, is wrong and ultimately dangerous.

Momik as an adult then delivers the story of his Grandfather Wasserman, who may of course be his actual grandfather or not, a survivor of the death camps who is dropped off one afternoon at Momik's house by the workers in a sanitorium where he has been staying since the end of the war. Anshel Wasserman, like most of the adult characters in the book, has been driven insane by his war experiences, and having been a popular children's writer before the war, tells the child Momik stories -- inane rambling that Momik alone decides is worth decoding in his quest to understand The Beast.

Wasserman himself survived the death camp by delivering yet another fantastic episode in his once popular series of heroic adventures entitled Children of the Heart beloved by the Nazi guard who detains him, like the Scheherazade from whom he once borrowed a name, but with a twist. Scheherazade told her tale to stay alive. Wasserman will tell his tale night after night, to the eager Nazi guard on the condition that at the end of every evening the guard will attempt to kill him. However, Wasserman unlike so many of the Lambs to the Slaughter around him, has no talent for death. The guard does not succeed and Wasserman lives through the war, and there is a twist there as well.

Of course, the Final Solution proceeds under all the characters feet like some icy cliff; at once the explanation for everything, and nothing, mowing every story under with its cold undertow -- taking with it human dignity, history, love, friendship, beliefs, god and honesty.

Grossman's language is a constant profusion that sputters, quakes and bubbles like a volcano of words spewing in every direction. I am certain that I could read it a hundred times and not read the same book twice. In that sense, it is less a novel than a 450 page narrative poem, and it will take some stamina to read. But if you do so, you will be rewarded. To see any work of art this singular and ambitious, particularly if you are an artist or writer yourself, is to be inspired to delve in wholeheartedly into your grandest plans and most idiosyncratic vision. Audience be damned! Here is what I have to see and say! And yet, I never for a moment felt any sense of contempt from Grossman, merely that he didn't care particularly to be understood or even grasped and somehow that was alright. You have great confidence in where he is taking you page by page. And in each moment, a revelation, a peek under the scrim of life's mad stage. Nonetheless, when I came out of it, I was eager for some solid ground.(less)

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Jan 21, 2011 Yair Bezalel rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book shouldn't hold together as well as it does. So many disparate elements that, to me, shouldn't be attempting to work in cohesion. Child of holocaust survivors/cynical israeli author attempting to write about the holocaust whilst straightening his own life/post modern travails/camp inmate writer going all 1001 and nights on a camp commandant....in a lesser writer's hands this story woulve collapsed into an amorphous mess, falling under the weight ofg tis own ambition. But Grossman succee...more

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Jul 23, 2008 Candice Davantzis rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: novels

there is lots of literature on the holocaust but this is by far my favorite holocaust representation. it is so, so impressive. mostly I say this because of the first section (there are four total), which is an 80-page story about a little boy named Momik. you could totally read this part without reading the rest of the book - it stands alone, and is just plain GOOD in that breathtaking way that short pieces sometimes are. the second section is very challenging to read and makes very little sense...more

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Mar 02, 2008 Claire rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: newish-fiction

This is the most intense, and incredible, books I've read in a while. It took me almost a full month to read, but the effort was well worth it. The novel is preoccupied with finding a linguistic world to inhabit post-Holocaust:

"He knew that a language that will admit a sentence like 'I killed your Jew...In that case, I will now kill,' etc., a language where such verbal constructs do not turn to poison in the speaker's mouth--is not the language of life, human and moral, but a language infiltrate...more

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Sep 02, 2009 laura saldarini rated it 5 of 5 stars

When i first read “Someone to Run With”, i knew i would not rest until i finished reading all Grossman’s books. This one did not disappoint. I found myself crying at the very end of the book. Without a doubt is difficult to speak about Holocaust…, but is is extremely hard to speak about it to the new generation. Tha’s what Grossman did in this book. All of the characters and the plot make it so much interesting to read. So, to me, Grossman did an amazing job in this book.
I really recommend this...more

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Sep 11, 2012 Tamara rated it 3 of 5 stars

This was a real trudge for me. I gave it three stars because there were aspects of it that I found really interesting. My favorite part of the book was definitely the first section - it was downhill from there but the last section was very good as well. This book is a translation and I thought that was done extremely well too. But there were parts of it that really dragged for me - whole sections even.

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Jun 18, 2012 Irina rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Dec 13, 2010 Jean Kelly rated it 3 of 5 stars

This was a very difficult book to read and even more difficult to feel with any certainty that I understood what the writer was saying. That said, I am actually reading again to see if I can sort things out. This is an author I respect and I feel the effort will pay off. The strong desire that humankind should exist without war is one message I heard.

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Aug 03, 2011 Susu added it

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A kid growing up in Israel in the shadow of the dark memories of all the Holocaust survivors around him - they don´t really talk about it and so Momik starts to build his own idea of the Nazi Beast.

I found it hard to follow and put it down several times.

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Sep 24, 2009 Efrat rated it 5 of 5 stars

One of the most heart wrenching and memorable books I have read. period.
The story the holocaust and its aftermath is told through different fictional perspectives/characters. Surreal, painful, disturbing, naive, and humanly intimate.

AMAZING!!!!

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Aug 31, 2012 Kia76 rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Mi sono innamorata di Grossman con il "Cerbiatto" ma questo libro proprio non mi � piaciuto. Non si capisce niente, flussi di coscienza, cambiamenti di scenari... Interesante e originale il dizionario alla fine del libro.

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Apr 14, 2008 Delphine rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Momik est un petit garçon de neuf ans qui grandit à Jérusalem. Autour de lui, les adultes parlent de "la Bête", celle qu'ils ont affronté "Là-Bas", celle qui a emporté le frère de grand-mère. Jusqu'au jour où celui-ci, Anshel Wasserman, revienne et soit placé chez les parents de Momik.

Momik se lance alors dans des expériences pour tenter de comprendre ce qu'est la Bête et pourquoi elle fait tant peur aux grands. Devenu adulte, Momik continue à traquer la Shoah.

Le style de ce roman, qui prend pou...more

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Oct 28, 2010 Ellen added it

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Recommended by an AV Club commenter.

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Mar 01, 2012 Susan KG rated it 1 of 5 stars

It's difficult to give a book by David Grossman just one star. I thought that his books "Someone to Run With", and "To the End of the Land" were excellent and loved them both. I had a heck of a time following all the different stories within stories in "See Under Love", and had to force myself to finish it. I have this nagging concern that there are ways in which this book trivialized the Holocaust. For well-done books about the Holocaust, "The Book Thief", "Stones from the River", and "Every Ma...more

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Mar 31, 2011 Hannah rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, jew-stuff

Absolutely blew me away. Heartbreaking, surreal, wonderful writing.

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Dec 06, 2011 Susan rated it 5 of 5 stars

One of the best books I've read in years.

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Jun 14, 2010 Steph marked it as to-read

I started reading this, but just it wasn't the right time. Will try again though as I am interested in this story.

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Oct 19, 2007 daniel smith rated it 5 of 5 stars

Pretty amazing. Grossman's writing sytle is different than anything I've read before. He jumps around a lot, both in style and plot, occasionally flowing into free verse. If you're not ready for it, it can be fustrating but once you resign yourself, it's very compelling.
He's got some magical realism goin' on in there which is fun. Not sure if 'fun' is the best way to describe it as most of the material is pretty depressing if you think about it enough. A reference in the book now has me reading...more

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Dec 29, 2012 Jordana Horn Gordon rated it 5 of 5 stars

Almost perfect

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Jul 07, 2011 Leandro Beguoci rated it 4 of 5 stars

It is on my top 5

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May 18, 2012 Erin rated it 3 of 5 stars

The last third made the slog worth it. Gut-wrenching, just soul-wrecking, how much truth is told in that last third. I want to actually buy the book (and it's a rare book that compels me to actually purchase it) and go back through with a pen and a highlighter, just so I can remember all the moving, amazing, painful parts. Whew. I need a break from these brutal slogs.

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Dec 26, 2012 Kate rated it 5 of 5 stars

Absolutely mind-reeling. David Grossman continues to knock me off my feet in the most amazing ways. To the End of the Land is still my favorite of his, likely only winning over this one given how often disturbed I was in reading this. heh... In any case, I'd say Grossman is near impossible to beat when it comes to matters of sheer humanity. Flipping brilliant.

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Aug 06, 2008 Anna marked it as never-finished

Shelves: israeli-writers

The first section called Momik was very good perhaps he should have made it a novella and called it a day. Publisher's Weekly described it aptly "Although stylistically daring, the bulk of Grossman's novel never re-creates the pathos that introduced Momik the child." In other words, it becomes sulky and unreadable...maybe it's something in the translation.

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May 17, 2007 Josh rated it 4 of 5 stars

See Under: Love is one of the oddest, wonderful, and most challenging books that I have ever read. Divided into 3 unique sections, Grossman tastefully and skillfully critiques the mindsets of the first two generations of Israeli citizens and modern human males.

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