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Shortlisted for International Man Booker Prize. A Guardian and New Statesman Book of the Year. The setting is a comedy club in a small Israeli town. An audience that has come expecting an evening of amusement instead sees a comedian falling apart on stage; an act of disintegration, a man crumbling, as a matter of choice, before their eyes. They could get up and leave, or boo and whistle and drive him from the stage, if they were not so drawn to glimpse his personal hell. Dovaleh G, a veteran stand-up comic - charming, erratic, repellent - exposes a wound he has been living with for years: a fateful and gruesome choice he had to make between the two people who were dearest to him. A Horse Walks into a Bar is a shocking and breathtaking read. Betrayals between lovers, the treachery of friends, guilt demanding redress. Flaying alive both himself and the people watching him, Dovaleh G provokes both revulsion and empathy from an audience that doesn't know whether to laugh or cry - and all this in the presence of a former childhood friend who is trying to understand why he's been summoned to this performance

In seinem hochgelobten Roman Kommt ein Pferd in die Bar zundet der preisgekronte israelische Autor David Grossman ein sprachliches Feuerwerk, das an die Substanz geht.An einem heien Augustabend stolpert der Comedian Dovele auf die Buhne einer Kleinstadt, reit billige Witze, beleidigt, frotzelt und erzahlt dann die irrsinnig komische Geschichte uber die erste Beerdigung seines Lebens damals, als man ihm wahrend der stundenlangen Fahrt zum Friedhof nicht sagte, wer von seinen Eltern gestorben war. Den Zuschauern vergeht das Lachen, der Abend gerat zur Generalabrechnung mit Dovele selbst, dem Publikum, einer zutiefst beschadigten Gesellschaft. Bis der Vorhang fallt.

Història molt tendra d''una mare i el seu fill, que explica com van néixer les abraçades.Història molt tendra d''una mare i el seu fill, que explica com van néixer les abraçades.

Essays on politics and literature from one of world literature's most respected voices.

L’Uri aprèn a parlar, però els grans no l’entenen; sort en té, del seu germà.

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. In a fit of preemptive grief and magical thinking, 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 an unlikely companion: their former best friend and her former lover Avram, once a brilliant artistic spirit. Avram served in the army alongside Ilan when they were young, but their lives were forever changed one weekend when the two jokingly had Ora draw lots to see which of them would get the few days' leave being offered by their commander - a chance act that sent Avram into Egpyt and the Yom Kippur War, where he was brutally tortured as a POW. In the aftermath, a virtual hermit, he refused to keep in touch with the family and has never met the boy. Now, as Ora and Avram sleep out in the hills, ford rivers and cross valleys, avoiding all news from the front, she gives him the gift of Ofer, word by word; she supplies 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 bonds undreamed of in his broken world. Their walk has a 'war and peace' rhythm, as their conversation places the most hideous trials of war next to the daily joys and anguish of raising children. Never have we seen so clearly the reality and surreality of daily life in Israel, the currents of ambivalence about war within one household, and the burdens that fall on each generation anew. Grossman's rich imagining of a family in love and crisis makes for one of the great antiwar novels of our time.

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 the 'Walking Man' - paces in ever-widening circles around the town. One after another, all manner of townsfolk fall into step with him (the Net Mender, the Midwife, the Elderly Maths Teacher, even the Duke), each enduring his or her own loss. The walkers raise questions of grief and bereavement: Can death be overcome by an intensity of speech or memory? Is it possible, even for a fleeting moment, to call to the dead and free them from their death? Grossman's answer to such questions is a hymn to these characters, who ultimately find solace and hope in their communal act of breaching death's hermetic separateness. For the reader, the solace is in their clamorous vitality, and in the gift of Grossman's storytelling - a realm where loss is not merely an absence, but a life force of its own.

Lucía y su madre se convierten, por un día, en la princesa y la reina del Sol. Así, se sumergirán en una aventura para que, desde la oscuridad de la noche, el sol despierte, cobre fuerza e inunde con luz y alegria todos los rincones. El final del dia llegara, es inevitable, pero mañana, seguro, habra unas nuevas reina y princesa del Sol.

En Guidi està asegut sota una figuera mentre el seu pare arregla el cotxe, que s'ha espatllat. Aleshores apareix un mico i s'emporta en Guidi com si el conegués de tota la vida i el pare li explica que, fa molt i molt de temps, tots els homes eren micos.

En 1993 Rabin y Arafat firmaron los Acuerdos de Oslo, sellando una promesa de paz entre árabes e israelíes. Los diez años que han transcurrido desde entonces se inaguraron con una esperanza y un optimismo que no tardaron en transformarse en venganza y violencia. El presente volumen reune los articulos que sobre este conflicto ha publicado David Grossman en la prensa europea y norteamericana hasta el dia de hoy.

Un chico de doce años llamado David, se ve envuelto en un escabroso asunto: su mejor amigo, un hombre de unos setenta años, y un rudo tipo con marcado acento alemán se retan a un duelo a muerte. David es el unico que sabe los motivos y que puede evitar un baño de sangre.

En David es veu embolicat en una historia que pot acabar molt malament: per culpa d''una antiga rivalitat, dos homes es volen batre en duel. Ell, que s''ha assabentat de tot plegat amagat sota un llit, haura de fer els possibles per evitar-ho.