Following his magisterial To the End of the Land, the universally acclaimed Israeli author brings us an incandescent fable of parental grief––concise, elemental, a powerfully distilled experience of understanding and acceptance, and of art’s triumph over death.   In Falling Out of Time, David Grossman has created a genre-defying drama––part play, part prose, pure poetry––to tell the story of bereaved parents setting out to reach their lost children. It begins in a small village, in a kitchen, where a man announces to his wife that he is leaving, embarking on a journey in search of their dead son. The man––called simply Walking Man––paces in ever-widening circles around the town. One after another, all manner of townsfolk fall into step with him (the Net-Mender, the Midwife, the Elderly Math Teacher, even the Duke), each enduring his or her own loss. The walkers raise questions of grief and bereavement: Can death be overcome by an intensity of speech or memory? Is it possible, even for a fleeting moment, to call to the dead and free them from their death? Grossman’s answer to such questions is a hymn to these characters, who ultimately find solace and hope in their communal act of breaching death’s hermetic separateness. For the reader, the solace is in their clamorous vitality, and in the gift of Grossman’s storytelling––a realm where loss is not merely an absence but a life force of its own.

Product Description: Amir and Effi collected relatives. With Holocaust survivors for parents and few other 'real' relatives alive, relationships operated under a "Law of Compression" in which tenuous connections turned friends into uncles, cousins and grandparents...read more

Product Description: From the head writer of the original In Treatment, an exquisite novel of the maturation of a girl, a family, and an entire communityEden is no paradise: it is the stifling, rural community in which upscale urban escapees, Alona and Mark, drift apart and divorce under the resentful scrutiny of Roni, Mark's needy adolescent daughter...read more

Product Description: Journalist Leon Abramowitz never intended to immigrate to Palestine. Yet in 1922, four years after he was sent there from Europe to report on the lives of the pioneers, he discovers that the editor who dispatched him has run off with half of the paper's money, leaving Leon forgotten in The Promised Wilderness...read more

Fifty-year-old Yonatan Luria, a marginal writer and widower raising his daughter, Dana, alone, finds his life transformed forever when he meets Shira Klein, a best-selling author tormented by crippling stage fright, and the three embark on a halting journey toward making a family together. A first novel. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Written by one of Israel's foremost writers, this title contains two stories about love and betrayal.

Journeying to Paris from Tel Aviv to attend the funeral of her cousin Michel, Ofra escapes a life life lived vicariously through her oldest friend, Sarah, a photographer and political activist, while Sarah, drawn to a Palestinian nationalist, pledges herself to help alleviate the suffering of others, abandoning her own child in the process. 12,500 first printing.