Grossman David: To the End of the Land

Name: To the End of the Land
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Author: Grossman David

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Author: Grossman David
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
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Condition: Vrlo dobro
Code: 83965

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To the End of the Land

Grossman David

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David Grossman: To the End of the Land

Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is on the verge of celebrating her son Ofer's discharge from the army when she returns to the front for a major offensive. In a fit of preemptive grief and magical thinking, she sets out on a hike across Galilee, leaving no information for 'intelligencers' who might black her door with the worst possible news. Recently estranged from her husband Ilan, she brings with her an unexpected companion: their former best friend and ex-lover Avram, a once brilliant artistic spirit. Avram served in the army alongside Ilan when they were young, but their lives changed forever one weekend when the two jokingly made Ora draw lots to see which of them would get the few days of leave offered by their commanding officer—a fortuitous act that sent Avram to Egypt and the Yom Kippur War, where he was brutally tortured as a prisoner of war. After that, practically a recluse, he refused to maintain contact with his family and never met the boy. Now, while Ora and Avram sleep in the hills, cross rivers and cross valleys, avoiding all news from the front, she gives him Ofer, word for word; she gives him the whole story of her motherhood, a retelling that keeps Ofer very much alive for Ora and for the reader, and opens Avram to human connections he never dreamed of in his broken world. Their walk has the rhythm of 'war and peace', while their conversation places the most terrible trials of war alongside the everyday joys and anxieties of raising children. We have never seen so clearly the reality and surreality of daily life in Israel, the currents of ambivalence surrounding the war within one household and the burdens that fall anew on each generation.

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