David Grossman: More Than I Love My Life, Kartoniert / Broschiert
More Than I Love My Life
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- Publisher:
- Vintage Publishing, 08/2022
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, B-format paperback
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781529113945
- Item number:
- 10850858
- Volume:
- 288 Pages
- Weight:
- 200 g
- Format:
- 198 x 129 mm
- Thickness:
- 15 mm
- Release date:
- 25.8.2022
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Blurb
An epic, deeply moving novel about the power of love and loving with courage - from the Man Booker International Prize-winning author of A Horse Walks into a Bar
On a kibbutz in Israel in 2008, Gili is celebrating the ninetieth birthday of her grandmother Vera, the adored matriarch of a sprawling and tight-knit family. But festivities are interrupted by the arrival of Nina: the iron-willed daughter who rejected Vera's care; and the absent mother who abandoned Gili when she was still a baby.
Nina's return to the family after years of silence precipitates an epic journey from Israel to the desolate island of Goli Otok, formerly part of Yugoslavia. It was here, five decades earlier, that Vera was held and tortured as a political prisoner. And it is here that the three women will finally come to terms with the terrible moral dilemma that Vera faced, and that permanently altered the course of their lives.
More Than I Love My Life is a sweeping story about the power of love and loving with courage. A novel driven by faith in humanity even in our darkest moments, it asks us to confront our deepest held beliefs about a woman's duty to herself and to her children.
'Grossman's work resonates with emotional intelligence, humanity and truth' Irish Times
Biography
David Grossman, 1954 in Jerusalem geboren, ein dezidierter Verfechter einer friedlichen Lösung des Nahostkonflikts, gehört wegen seiner differenzierten politischen Haltung und ungewöhnlichen Erzählphantasie zu den herausragenden Schriftstellern der jüngeren Generation.§David Grossman hat für seine schriftstellerisches Werk und sein politisches Engagement zahlreiche Auszeichnungen erhalten, u. a. den Nelly-Sachs-Preis (1991), den Premio Mondello (Italien, 1996) und den Geschwister-Scholl-Preis (2008). 2010 wird ihm der Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels verliehen.§David Grossman ist verheiratet und hat drei Kinder, er lebt in Mevaseret Zion, einem Vorort von Jerusalem.
