Title : A Woman Fleeing the Ad - David Grossman - Book
Summary :
Medici Prize - Foreign Novel 2011
Ora, a woman recently separated from her husband Ilan, leaves her home in Jerusalem and flees the dreaded news: the death of her second son, Ofer, who, about to complete his military service, has volunteered for a twenty-eight-day "major operation" in a Palestinian city. As if to ward off fate, she decides to be absent during this period: as long as the messengers of death do not find her, her son will be safe. The hike in Galilee that she had planned with Ofer, she undertakes with Avram, her childhood sweetheart, to tell him about her son. She hopes to protect her child through the thread of words that have shaped her life since his first breath, and thus spare him his last.
Through the moving story of a family trying at all costs to preserve its values and emotional ties, the author tells us the story of his country from 1967 to the present day and describes with incomparable force the repercussions of this permanent state of war on the psyche of Israelis, their anxieties, their doubts, but also vitality, commitment, and love in all its forms.
David Grossman , born in Jerusalem in 1954, is the renowned author of numerous award-winning novels and committed essays that have shaken Israeli and international opinion, including The Yellow Wind , which preceded the first Intifada. In 2010, he received the German Publishers and Booksellers Peace Prize. He is an officer of the Order of Arts and Letters.
Translated from Hebrew by Sylvie Cohen
International reception:
“A Woman Running Away from the Announcement is a book of extraordinary power and intensity; it is David Grossman’s masterpiece. Flaubert created his Emma, Tolstoy his Anna, and now Grossman has his Ora—a fully alive, perfectly embodied being. I devoured this long novel in a kind of feverish trance. Stunning, magnificent, unforgettable.” Paul Auster
“Among all the writers I have read, David Grossman is undoubtedly the most gifted. Gifted, not only because of his imagination, his energy, his originality, but because he accesses what is truly inexpressible, because he knows how to read inside a being and discover the singular essence of their humanity.” Nicole Krauss
“A book of abundant richness, full of anguish and dire omens, but also full of an ancestral life force. Grossman penetrates the depths of his characters' souls and breathes life into them.” The Republic
"David Grossman perfectly evokes passionate love and sensuality, male friendship, and the delicate nuances of everyday life in a country weakened by violence and fear." The World
- EAN: 9782021004625
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