David Grossman

• Feb-2024
• / General Fiction

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 Amno...

• Aug-2021
• / Literary

INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • A remarkable novel of suffering, love, and healing -- the story of three generations of women on an unlikely journey to a Croatian island and a secret that needs to be told -- from th...

• Feb-2017
• / Literary

The award-winning and internationally acclaimed author of the To the End of the Land now gives us a searing short novel about the life of a stand-up comic, as revealed in the course of one evening’s performance. In the dance between comic and audie...

• Mar-2014
• / Literary

Following his magisterial To the End of the Land, the universally acclaimed Israeli author brings us an incandescent fable of parental grief -- concise, elemental, a powerfully distilled experience of understanding and acceptance, and of art’s triu...

• Nov-2013
• / General Fiction

“You are sweet,” Ben’s mother tells him as they walk in the field at sunset, “There is no one like you in the entire world!” “I want there to be someone like me!” Ben exclaims, for if he is the only person like himself in the entire wor...

• Oct-2010
• / Literary

From one of Israel's most acclaimed writers comes a novel of extraordinary power about family life -- the greatest human drama -- and the cost of war. Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is on the verge of celebrating her son Ofer's release from army...

• Sep-2010
• / General Fiction

• Oct-2006
• / Science Fiction

A consideration of one of the Bible’s most powerful stories from a leading Israeli writer In this fascinating reexamination of the story of Samson, David Grossman goes beyond the surface of the familiar tale to look into what the life of this extra...

• Aug-2005
• / General Fiction

Here are two accounts of love - of men and women, mothers and daughters, strangers who for a brief moment become intimate. Souls are bared, secrets are revealed and stories are told. In Frenzy, a man and a woman are driving through the night. Shaul i...

• May-2005
• / General Fiction

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In Her Body Knows, a fevered storyteller and a captive audience revisit the past together in each of David Grossman's novellas, trying to make sense of a betrayal that neither one can put to rest. In "...

• Jan-2004
• / General Fiction

An award-winning Israeli author's novel "is a cross between Run Lola Run and Oliver Twist . . . [with] an urgency that becomes almost unbearable" (New Yorker). David Grossman's Someone to Run With tells the story of a lost dog, and ...

• Aug-2003
• / General Fiction

• Feb-2002
• / Literary

One man attempts to come to terms with his family's history with the Holocaust in this "dazzling work of imagination" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)."A phantasmagoric novel . . . that successfully merges history, personal mythology...

• Jan-2002
• / General Fiction

The international bestseller Be My Knife is a compelling love story from David Grossman, the leading Israeli novelist of his generation"We could be like two people who inject themselves with truth serum, and at long last have to tell it--the truth. I...

• Feb-1999
• / General Fiction

I was twelve years old when what I'm about to tell you took place. Today, sixteen years later, I still recall the pounding of my heart as I heard the approaching footsteps of the bully of Heidelberg University. Above me on the bed sat Heinrich Rosent...

• Dec-1998
• / General Fiction

David Grossman's classic novels See Under: Love and The Book of Intimate Grammar, earned him international acclaim as an author of childhood. The Zig Zag Kid, written in a more optimistic vein, recounts thirteen-year-old Nonny Feuerberg's picturesque...

• Aug-1994
• / General Fiction

With The Book of Intimate Grammar, leading Israeli novelist David Grossman gives us the story of the greatest and most universal tragedy, the loss of the world of childhood. At twelve, Aron Kleinfeld is the ringleader among the boys in his Jerus...

• Jan-1991
• / General Fiction

In a chorus of voices David Grossman's The Smile of the Lamb tells the story of Uri, an idealistic young Israeli soldier serving in an army unit in the small Palestinian village of Andal, in the occupied territories, and his relationship with Khilmi,...

• / General Fiction