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...Towards the end of last month, the leaders of the United States, Israel, and Saudi Arabia spoke enthusiastically of a peace accord between Israel and the Saudis, which would build on Israel’s normalisation...
...“There are plenty of Arab-American swing voters,” said Grossman....
...Israel-Hamas war: The Jewish state is in a nightmare, writes award-winning Israeli author David Grossman. What will it be when it rises from the ashes?...
...Other stuff I liked this week David Grossman, winner of the Man Booker International Prize in 2017, wrote an article in the Financial Times this week about the sense of betrayal felt by Israelis towards...
...I do not normally write about Israel-Palestine issues because I am not a Middle East expert and feelings run understandably high....
...asks Derek Grossman, senior defence analyst with the Rand Corporation, of the US-India relationship. “In my view, we are.”...
...Israel is in its fourth wave of Covid-19 and Grossman is about to get his third vaccination....
...of the novel’s protagonist, in this story spanning three generations and moving from the former Yugoslavia to Lapland and Israel....
...Ms Cohen, born in the UK, but raised in Israel, has translated Mr Grossman’s To the End of the Land, as well as works by other Israeli writers....
...David Grossman’s A Horse Walks Into a Bar is set in a comedy club in a small town in modern-day Israel, and was translated by Jessica Cohen. Two Scandinavian writers also made the list....
...Israel, a country of 8.7m people, has produced a disproportionate number of Nobel laureates, acclaimed writers such as David Grossman and Amos Oz, and political household names like Golda Meir....
...In this respect, it could not be more different from Grossman’s piercing epic, To The End Of The Land (2008), in which a middle-aged mother, Ora, embarks on an extended trek the length of Israel to avoid...
...One Night, Markovitch, by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, translated by Sondra Silverston, Pushkin Press, RRP£10 This confident debut by Israel’s Gundar-Goshen kicks off as a picaresque novel about Yaacov and his...
...… Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from the Rights of Man to Robespierre, by Jonathan Israel, Princeton, RRP£27.95/$39.95 Israel, a professor of modern European history...
...UK. 17.David Grossman, novelist. Israel. 18.Chen Guangcheng, lawyer and civil rights activist. China. 19.Ramachandra Guha, historian, columnist. India. 20.Jonathan Haidt, psychologist, author....
...depicted the experiences of an Israeli mother whose son is serving in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)....
...To the End of the Land, by David Grossman, translated by Jessica Cohen, Vintage, RRP£8.99, 577 pages...
...Yehoshua and David Grossman....
...To the End of the Land, by David Grossman, translated by Jessica Cohen, Jonathan Cape RRP£18.99, 582 pages David Grossman’s latest novel is being presented by the publishers as Israel’s War and Peace, with...
...Three of Israel’s most prominent novelists – Amos Oz, David Grossman and A.B. Yehoshua – supported the appeal....
...As a result, the protesters' ranks are now studded with some of Israel’s most prominent intellectuals and writers, notably David Grossman, the author....
...The American journalist Thomas Friedman and the Israeli novelist David Grossman both faulted Israel’s leaders for not acting more “creatively”. But creativity has its limits....
...This matter of a writer’s personal happiness or unhappiness when it comes to writing is especially trenchant in the case of Grossman, an opponent of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory whose son...
...Mr Grossman, who lost his son in the Lebanon war, believes Israel will eventually come to share the international mood....
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