David Grossman

Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is on the verge of celebrating her son Ofer's release from army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive. she sets out for a hike in the Galilee, leaving no forwarding information for the "notifiers" who might darken her door with the worst possible news. Recently estranged from her husband, Ilan, she drags along their former best friend and her former lover Avram. Avram served in the army alongside...

Usando las palabras como anclas para no caer en la locura, David Grossman, Man Booker International Prize 2017, ha querido cerrar una historia que empezó con La vida entera y nos lleva a lugares donde solo el genio de un gran escritor puede llegar.

Callados
estuvimos esperando la mañana.
Unamañana
que no
llegaba.
La sangre
no
corría por las venas.
Me levanté, te envolví
en unamanta,
me agarraste

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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 Walking Man -- paces in ever-widening circles around the town. One after another,...

It details the lives of three women living in three different decades: a housewife in the '60s, a socialite in the '80s, and a lawyer in 2018, each dealing with infidelity in their marriages. The series will examine how the roles of women have changed, but how their reaction to betrayal, has not.