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Writing in the Dark

Essays on Literature and Politics

Author: David Grossman; Translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen

Writing in the Dark

Writing in the Dark

$11.99

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Profound essays on Israel, literature, and language from one of the country's most respected and best-loved voices

Throughout his career, David Grossman has been a voice...

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144
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On Sale
09/30/2008

Book Details

Profound essays on Israel, literature, and language from one of the country's most respected and best-loved voices

Throughout his career, David Grossman has been a voice for peace and reconciliation between Israel and its Arab citizens and neighbors. In six new essays on politics and culture in Israel today, he addresses the conscience of a country that has lost faith in its leaders and its ideals. This collection, Writing in the Dark, includes an already famous speech concerning the disastrous Second Lebanon War of 2006, the war that took the life of Grossman's twenty-year-old son, Uri.

Moving, human, clear-sighted, and courageous, touching on literature and artistic creation as well as politics and philosophy, these writings are a cri de coeur from "a writer who has been, for nearly two decades, one of the most original and talented not only in his own country, but anywhere" (The New York Times Book Review).

Imprint Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

ISBN

9781429996167

In The News

“A writer who has been, for nearly two decades, one of the most original and talented not only in his own country but anywhere.” —NEIL GORDON, The New York Times Book Review

“If there is one word for Grossman's faith, it is humanism. This word is in some dispute today; it is rare and awesome to come across the real thing.” —MARSHALL BERMAN, The Nation

“One of contemporary literature's most versatile and absorbing writers.” —KENNETH BREWER, San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle Book Review

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Writing in the Dark

Writing in the Dark

$11.99