Beautiful and haunting book about Israel and it's conflicts.The beginning is a bit hard to follow, and it's surreal. But that's fitting, because the protagonist is deathly ill. In this introduction, Ora meets the two boys who will play a huge part in her life. Then the book jumps ahead to when ...
Mi ci sono voluti due mesi interi per leggere Ad un cerbiatto somiglia il mio amore, e' stata una vera maratona di lettura, lunga 780 pagine. Non tantissime, ho letto anche libri piu' lunghi, ma e' un romanzo talmente denso che mi ci sono voluti due mesi per leggerlo e ho dovuto intervallarlo con...
I really enjoyed reading this book. I think one of the main reasons is that I have read so many based in the UK or USA and therefore reading this book was a refreshing change. It may seem odd to use the word refreshing considering the subject matter but I found that too was refreshing or rather t...
David Grossman can write. His prose is simply fantastic, and he is able to do dark humor, persuasion, compassion and anger with grace. He writes in a way that makes the reader want more, even when the subject is quite heavy. This is probably the best book I have read espousing the "two-state s...
"Important, but not quite loved." -Thoughts on Lion's Honey by David Grossman (translated from Hebrew by Scott Schoffman)I am no stranger to the story of Samson; I studied in a private, religious school for 13 years, during which I was - for lack of a better, or nicer, word - force-fed the Bible ...
Si comincia la lettura. Leggo le lettere di Yair, una dopo l'altra, e dentro di me una vocina continua a dirmi che sono troppo cinica per tutto questo, per leggere e comprendere le farneticazioni sentimentali di un tizio che sembra vagamente nevrotico, di un tizio che sembra scrivere da solo una ...
"A volte la verità sembra proprio una bugia."Ci sono persone rotonde, ci sono bambini a forma di triangolo e ci sono... bambini a zigzag. Il giovane Nono appartiene a quest'ultima categoria: tale è l'indole ribelle, incorruttibile, che lo caratterizza.Quella di Nono è una storia di crescita e di ...
Samson withdraws into his childish, almost infantile self, disarmed of the violence, madness, and passion that have confounded and ruined his life. This is, of course, also the moment when his fate is sealed, for Delilah is clutching his hair and the razor, and the Philistines outside are already...
They were afraid to tell anyone what they were planning, especially Yochi, and they waited till she’d left for ballet and Aron had gone to the supermarket with a long shopping list before calling an ambulance; only, Aron arrived home just in time to see them helping the driver pull Grandma into t...
They agree that this was the hardest climb so far, and gobble down some wafers and biscuits. “We have to get some food soon,” they remind each other, and Avram gets up to show her how much weight he’s lost over the past few days. He’s impressed at having slept through the night for the first time...
He thrusts his plate away. Knives and forks clang. He stands up and seems not to know where he is. The woman recoils in her chair. His gaze hovers around her without taking hold, and she—wounded already by disaster—senses immediately: it’s here again, touching me, its cold fingers on my lips. But...