David Grossman

In autumn 1993, the Oslo Agreements were signed by Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, marking the beginning of promise for a constructive peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. The ten years that followed were charted first by hope and optimism only to deteriorate into revenge and violence. Throughout this decade David Grossman has published articles in the American and European press, written in a personal voice - father, husband, peace activist, novelist - as he witnesses devastating events, he cries out with a prophetic wisdom, imploring both sides to return to sanity, to negotiations. The publication of this collection of articles will mark ten years to the dream of Oslo.

The international bestseller Be My Knife is a compelling love story from David Grossman, the leading Israeli novelist of his generation "We could be like two people who inject themselves with truth serum, and at long last have to tell it--the truth. I want to be able to say to myself, 'I bled truth with her, ' yes, that's what I want. Be a knife for me, and I, I swear, will be a knife for you." An awkward, neurotic seller of rare books writes a desperate letter to a beautiful stranger whom he sees at a class reunion. This simple, lonely attempt at seduction begins a love affair of words between Yair and Miriam, two married, middle-aged adults, dissatisfied with their lives, yearning for the connection that has always eluded them--and, eventually, reawakened to feelings that they thought had passed them by. Their correspondence unfolds into an exchange of their most naked confessions: of desire, childhood tragedies, joys, and humiliations. Through the dialogue between Yair--a family man and surprisingly successful adulterer, whose complex, guarded letters reveal a life of secrets kept from the people closest to him--and Miriam, at first deceptively open and warm, who fills her life with distraction to avoid a past full of painful secrets, Be My Knife explores the nature and the limits of intimacy. A deep departure from David Grossman's previous work, Be My Knife is his subtlest, most passionate novel yet.

A personal journey into the world of the Arab citizens living in Israel depicts the painful dilemma of a people being torn between conflicting identities as they are shunned by both Jews and Palestinians. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Aron Kelinfeld is the ringleader among the boys in his Jerusalem neighborhood, but as his 12-year-old friends begin to mature, Aaron remains imprisoned in the body of a child for three long years. While Israel inches toward the Six-Day War, and his friends cross the boundary between childhood and adolescence, Aron remains in his child's body, spying on the changes that adulthood wreaks as, like his hero Houdini, he struggles to escape the trap of growing up.

David Grossman's The Yellow Wind is essential reading for anyone who seeks a deeper understanding of Israel today. The Israeli novelist David Grossman's impassioned account of what he observed on the West Bank in early 1987--not only the misery of the Palestinian refugees and their deep-seated hatred of the Israelis but also the cost of occupation for both occupier and occupied--is an intimate and urgent moral report on one of the great tragedies of our time. This edition includes a new afterword by the author.

In this powerful novel by one of Israel's most prominent writers, Momik, the only child of Holocaust survivors, grows up in the shadow of his parents' history. Determined to exorcise the Nazi "beast" from their shattered lives and prepare for a second holocaust he knows is coming, Momik increasingly shields himself from all feeling and attachment. But through the stories his great-uncle tells him the same stories he told the commandant of a Nazi concentration camp Momik, too, becomes "infected with humanity." Grossman's masterly fusing of vision, thought, and emotion make" See Under: Love" a luminously imaginative and profoundly affecting work."

? Packender als in diesem Buch kann man über das Ende der Kindheit kaum fabulieren.? Spiegel Spezial Nono wird in ein paar Tagen dreizehn. Ein besonderes Datum, denn dann feiert er Bar Mizwa, seinen Eintritt in die jüdische Glaubensgemeinschaft. Doch bevor das große Fest stattfinden kann, sitzt Nono allein im Zug von Jerusalem nach Haifa. Sein Onkel erwartet ihn, um Nono die letzten Anweisungen für das große Fest zu geben. Aber es kommt alles anders. Auf der Fahrt steigen zwei Männer in sein Abteil: Sie sind an den Händen aneinandergefesselt, nach Nonos Beobachtungen ein Sträfling und sein Wächter. Doch warum benehmen sich die beiden nur so komisch? Nono schwitzt Blut und Wasser. So plötzlich, wie die beiden erschienen sind, verschwinden sie auch wieder. Auf den Sitzen haben sie einen Brief hinterlassen, der an Nono gerichtet ist. Gleich zwei Absender gibt es: Nonos Vater und seine Frau, mit der er zusammen lebt. ? Begib Dich unverzüglich in das dritte Abteil des Waggons. Dort wirst Du eine Person antreffen, die Dich erwartet. Nur Dich, Dich allein! Wir geben nicht preis, ob es sich um Mann oder Frau handelt, jung oder alt?, lautet die Nachricht. Ein Abenteuerspiel! Doch Nono entscheidet sich für die falsche Person: Felix Glick. Und damit beginnt ein viel größeres Abenteuer. Von einer Zugentführung bis hin zur Flucht vor der Polizei. Je mehr Nonos Vater, der Polizist ist, die beiden einkreist, desto mehr erfährt Nono über seine Geschichte. Felix Glick ist sein Großvater, ein Hochstapler und war eng mit Nonos verstorbener Mutter befreundet. Das Spiel des Vaters gerät aus den Fugen. Aber Nono lernt, sein Leben selbst in die Hand zu nehmen.

An tale of friendship between a beguiling boy and an old man with a past - a history that shapes the plot of the book and unfurls in the way real stories do between friends. David and Mr Rosenthal are generations apart in age but equally brave and each as unique for their years as the other.

A hijacked train whisks an imaginative young boy on an unforgettable adventure, in which he makes discoveries about his own family's past and a wild woman who rescued his Israeli policeman father from a vat of chocolate.

This volume examines the relationships between rural settlement processes and the spatial patterns they produce by mapping past and present patterns and tracing the historical processes which generated them. Using the historical records of Palestine (Eretz Israel), David Grossman reviews the settlement processes of bedouins (sedentarization and nomadization), Arab peasants (settlement fixation, migration, and frontier expansion of fallahin), and early Jewish settlers. Past records are traced back to the biblical period, and a survey of the literature dealing with British evidence of rural processes and settlement in medieval times is presented for comparison--sharpening Grossman's particular approach to the subject. The introduction provides a review of the literature and a discussion of the various approaches to the interpretation of rural spatial processes. It evaluates theoretical models and concludes with a simple model functioning as a hypothetical basis for the rest of the book. The following two chapters are devoted to the British colonization process, which, unlike the Palestinian one, can be traced in a fairly uninterrupted manner to its Anglo-Saxon roots. Next are chapters detailing the settlement processes and process patterns in Palestine, concluding with a reexamination of theoretical models in light of empirical evidence. Rural Process-Pattern Relationships considers subjects central to both historical geography and rural geography, representing a unique approach of interest to a wide range of scholars.